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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reconstruct
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
▪ Now a state historic park, Fort Ross is a complex of reconstructed buildings situated on the headlands overlooking the ocean.
event
▪ He reconstructed the events as he imagined they had happened that evening in April.
▪ It makes extensive use of mock trials, simulations, and role-playing to reconstruct historical events.
▪ We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation.
▪ Relieved yet confused, I tried to reconstruct the actual event.
▪ So far as I can reconstruct events, I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started.
history
▪ It is not possible to reconstruct a detailed history of Ine's reign but the indications are that he ruled with firmness.
▪ But the same kind of eclipse did not affect that other great area devoted to reconstructing the history of life: paleontology.
▪ Coin finds can help in reconstructing the economic history of this period.
▪ He also tries to reconstruct the history of representations in a completely different way.
life
▪ I reconstructed my life and all other women's in the light of male distortion and women's stolen potential.
▪ In order to reconstruct these lives, the techniques of ethnography are used.
■ VERB
try
▪ The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues.
▪ Relieved yet confused, I tried to reconstruct the actual event.
▪ Today they tried to reconstruct what they think might have been his movements before the disappearance.
▪ Write a noveL burn it, and then try to reconstruct it from memory. 9.
▪ It is, then, important to try to reconstruct monuments and understand them in their entirety.
▪ One of her cheekbones had been crushed and the doctors were trying to reconstruct it.
▪ Let me try and reconstruct what she looked like that day.
▪ Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kramer had several operations to reconstruct the bones in her leg.
▪ Police are trying to reconstruct the events of last Friday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, the question of eliminating and reconstructing an identity in an electronic age is ripe with possibility.
▪ Grosvenor's speeches and writings make it possible to reconstruct his political views in considerable detail.
▪ Later, people spend hours reconstructing that brutal transition from the nowhere to the everywhere, when nature can destroy you.
▪ Mechanization, with all that it involves, is certainly able to distort, destroy and reconstruct many aspects of a civilization.
▪ Royalties earned from the publications have purchased land upon which students have reconstructed cabins and preserved cultural artifacts.
▪ Wasson said damage was less than anticipated, and the forms would be reconstructed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconstruct

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
reconstruct

1768, "to build anew," from re- "back, again" + construct (v.). Meaning "to restore (something) mentally" is attested from 1862. Related: Reconstructed; reconstructing.

Wiktionary
reconstruct

vb. To construct again; to restore.

WordNet
reconstruct
  1. v. reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" [syn: construct, retrace]

  2. build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" [syn: rebuild]

  3. cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically

  4. return to its original or usable and functioning condition; "restore the forest to its original pristine condition" [syn: restore]

  5. 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.