reconstruct
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
reconstruct (third-person singular simple present reconstructs, present participle reconstructing, simple past and past participle reconstructed)
- To construct again; to restore.
- 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
- [...] 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.
- To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to construct again
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Further readingEdit
- reconstruct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- reconstruct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- reconstruct at OneLook Dictionary Search