Reconstruct Meaning
/ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo construct again; to restore.
verbTo attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
Sentence Examples
The government is compelled to reconstruct national finance.
Japan has to reconstruct its economy.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Archaeologists work for years to ____ the ancient building from the remaining ruins.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Forensic scientists worked to ____ the sequence of events that had led to the explosion.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō Latin cōnstruōder. Latin cōnstrūctusbor. English construct English reconstruct From re- + construct.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
"The greatest number of bridges requiring modification are overline bridges, and many methods are adopted in reconstructing and altering them to give increased clearances."
— 1958 July 26, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 465:
"[…] 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."
— 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
"But reconstructing the scene among those silent walls in the precarious light, with the unforgotten ghosts of other crimes ready to emerge from every shadow, I can conceive that no more frightful spectre than this sombre being, dripping red from hands and face at every step, has ever walked."
— 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Archaeologists work for years to ____ the ancient building from the remaining ruins.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Forensic scientists worked to ____ the sequence of events that had led to the explosion.