Crossword clues for reconstruct
reconstruct
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconstruct \Re`con*struct"\ (-str?kt"), v. t. To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To construct again; to restore.
WordNet
v. reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" [syn: construct, retrace]
build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" [syn: rebuild]
cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
return to its original or usable and functioning condition; "restore the forest to its original pristine condition" [syn: restore]
do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms" [syn: remodel, redo]
Usage examples of "reconstruct".
Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.
True, her mature writing was more directly influenced by close friendships with historians such as Mignet and Thierry, yet she always retained an appreciative recognition of how Lafayette had helped her reconstruct her life in France.
He was not trying to reinforce his beliefs but to reconstruct a cultural heritage, to remake a basis even of antinomic ideas.
Policy Board looked about for able people to reconstruct Sector Alpha Crucis, Lord Chardon recommended Desai with an enthusiasm that got him put in charge of Virgil, whose human-colonized planet Aeneas had been the spearhead of the revolt.
Alpha Crucis in general, Aeneas in particular, was to be occupied and reconstructed.
To examine the specimen, he sliced the stack into thin layers, like a microscopist preparing slides of an exotic organism, and then reconstructed it slice by slice on sheets of nonreflecting glass.
Our objection to living in this Union, and therefore the difficulty of reconstructing it, is not your Personal Liberty bills, not the Territorial question, but that you utterly and wholly misapprehend the Form of Government.
But is it legitimate deliberately to misconceive the unknown that governs our life in order that we may reconstruct this mysterious background?
But there was no deeply invested tradition of Orientalism, and consequently in the United States knowledge of the Orient never passed through the refining and reticulating and reconstructing processes, whose beginning was in philological study, that it went through in Europe.
In this assumption, which commends itself both as regards the aim of the composition and its presupposed conditions, we must remember that, from the third century onwards, Catholic writers systematically corrected, and to a great extent reconstructed, the heretical histories which were in circulation in the churches as interesting reading, and that the extent and degree of this reconstruction varied exceedingly, according to the theological and historical insight of the writer.
The process used by an investigative profiler in developing a criminal profile is quite similar to that used by clinicians to make a diagnosis and treatment plan: data are collected and assessed, the situation is reconstructed, hypotheses are formulated, a profile is developed and tested, and the results are reported back.
The Administration believed, and with good reason, that the combined influence of sentiment for the Union and the supposed necessities of trade would overcome all obstacles, and that the rebellious States would be so promptly and completely reconstructed that their senators and representatives would be admitted at the beginning of the next session of Congress.
In my judgment it endangers the government of the country, both State and National, and may give the next Congress and President to the reconstructed rebels.
If these men had in all cases established as good and trustworthy governments in the South as they had been reared under in the North, they would have conferred upon all the reconstructed States a blessing which as prejudice wore away would have caused their names to be respected and honored.
The new senators from the South were in themselves the proof that the Republicans still had control in several of the reconstructed States, and that in others the Democrats had regained complete ascendency.