reconstruct
Americanverb (used with object)
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to construct again; rebuild; make over.
The church was burned in 1895, but reconstructed in 1897.
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to re-create in the mind from given or available information.
The first step in solving this crime was to reconstruct the events of the murder.
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to cause to abandon earlier positions, beliefs, etc.; cause to adjust to new or current situations.
He's a reconstructed man with progressive views on gender equality.
The protesters and resisters refuse to be reconstructed.
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Historical Linguistics. to arrive at (hypothetical earlier forms of words, phonemic systems, etc.) by comparison of data from a later language or group of related languages.
verb
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to construct or form again; rebuild
to reconstruct a Greek vase from fragments
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to form a picture of (a crime, past event, etc) by piecing together evidence or acting out a version of what might have taken place
Other Word Forms
- reconstructer noun
- reconstructible adjective
- reconstruction noun
- reconstructive adjective
- reconstructor noun
Etymology
Origin of reconstruct
Example Sentences
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On Earth, archaeology reconstructs the past by studying ancient artifacts and remains.
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Researchers reconstructed the skull of an early lungfish species known as Paleolophus, which lived in seas that once covered what is now southern China about 410 million years ago.
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Scientists analyze data from orbiting spacecraft to identify minerals on the Martian surface and reconstruct the environmental conditions that produced them.
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In a separate study that also included Burkhardt, scientists reconstructed the full neural wiring of the comb jelly's gravity sensing organ.
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The scientists mapped the Antarctic gravity hole and reconstructed how it evolved over millions of years.
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