reconstruct

re- +‎ construct

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/

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reconstruct (third-person singular simple present reconstructs, present participle reconstructing, simple past and past participle reconstructed)

1. 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.

2. To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.

• “reconstruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “reconstruct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• reconstruct at OneLook Dictionary Search

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