Reconstruct
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Reconstruct is a verb meaning To construct again; to restore.
Meaning
To construct again; to restore.
More Meanings
- To attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
Example Sentences
The greatest number of bridges requiring modification are overline bridges, and many methods are adopted in reconstructing and altering them to give increased clearances.
As it was necessary to reconstruct the culvert close to the original position, the hazards of tunnelling through clay in an unstable condition, due to the absorption of water, had to be reduced by the application of electro-osmosis to dry out the material.
[…] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
But reconstructing the scene among those silent walls in the precarious light, with the unforgotten ghosts of other crimes ready to emerge from every shadow, I can conceive that no more frightful spectre than this sombre being, dripping red from hands and face at every step, has ever walked.
Word Forms
- reconstructs
- reconstructing
- reconstructed
Synonyms for reconstruct
Depending on context, synonyms include construct, retrace, rebuild, remodel.
Antonyms for reconstruct
Common opposites include deconstruct.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rebuild, retrace, remodel, construct, re-establish, remake.
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