to reconstruct
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3.9
- verb
- /ˌriːkənˈstrʌkt/
- Attempts to reconstruct this today have just not met expectations.
- a reconstructed building
- a reconstructed village
- a reconstructed breast
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Watch on YouTubeApart from the cost of buildings, government funding will be needed to repair and reconstruct damaged infrastructure.
- Apart from the cost of buildings, government funding will be needed to repair and reconstruct damaged infrastructure.
- Long destroyed forts were reconstructed, Gaul's civic life was regenerated, and the tax regime was gentle.
- Would have been broken to pieces, was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive Liana's vines of my hands.
Examples
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Thanks to your bravery, it has been reconstructed and I could now finally save my wife.
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We should reconstruct the theatre.
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Apart from the cost of buildings, government funding will be needed to repair and reconstruct damaged infrastructure.
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I've made some drawings on how I can reconstruct this.
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Step by step, bones are reconstructed, then the nervous and muscular systems.
Fiction book (1997) -
The original church was built on this site in 1674... ...and reconstructed between 1704 and 1724.
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Long destroyed forts were reconstructed, Gaul's civic life was regenerated, and the tax regime was gentle.
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After the hurricane, the town worked hard to reconstruct homes that had been destroyed.
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The archaeologists managed to reconstruct the ancient temple from the remaining ruins.
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She used old photographs to reconstruct her family's history and lineage.
Synonyms
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2.8
Make something again after it is damaged or destroyed
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3.5
Return something like a painting or building to its original working condition
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3.7
To change the shape and look of something, usually a room or building
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4.1
Make something again so it looks like the original
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3.4
Change parts of a room or building to make it look new
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4.3
To bring back something that stopped or was lost
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4.6
To make something clean and like new by fixing or decorating it
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7.0
Form something again after it has been destroyed or changed
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4.9
To repair and return a building or system to good condition
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3.7
To fix a building or object so it is usable again
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5.4
To fix something so it works well again
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6.7
To restore a used product by repairing or rebuilding so it becomes almost new
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8.9
Make something like it was before or better
Antonyms
How Rebuilt
Surface Forms
Morphology
reconstruct = construct (semi-transparent) = re + con + struct
For the physical building sense, adding 're-' to 'construct' straightforwardly gives the meaning 'construct again'.
Etymology
Reconstruct starts with re- meaning 'again' and the part construct meaning 'to build', just like in construction or structure. So to reconstruct a building is to 'build it again' after it was damaged.