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Reconstruct

//ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To construct again; to restore.

    "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."

  2. 2
    cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically wordnet
  3. 3
    To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.
  4. 4
    do over, as of (part of) a house wordnet
  5. 5
    reassemble mentally wordnet
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  1. 6
    build again wordnet
  2. 7
    return to its original or usable and functioning condition wordnet

Etymology

From re- + construct.

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