reconstruct

re·con·struct

to construct again; rebuild; make over
to build up, from remaining parts or other evidence, a concept or reproduction of (something in its original or complete form)

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reconstruct

transitive verb

re·con·struct·ed, re·con·struct·ing, re·con·structs

To construct again; rebuild.
To assemble or build again mentally; re-create: reconstructed the sequence of events from the evidence.
Linguistics To deduce the form and properties of (a protolanguage or an unattested word) based on evidence from attested languages, such as cognate words.
To cause to adopt a new attitude or outlook: a diehard traditionalist who could not be reconstructed.

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re′con·struct′i·ble
adjective

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Verb

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

To construct again; to restore.

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Rearrange and reconstruct an area which has been proved classes to be insanitary.
Eyre has ingeniously attempted to reconstruct the routes taken by the Australians in their advance across the continent.
What he really did do was to reconstruct society on the essentially feudal theory that the land was a gift from the king, held on conditions of homage and military service.
Harcourt, as chancellor of the exchequer, availed himself of the opportunity, which a large addition to the navy invited, to reconstruct the death duties.
Of course, we might seek to infer an unwritten tradition of Christ's words; but without pedantic ultra-Protestant devotion to written scripture, one may distrust on scientific grounds the attempt to reconstruct tradition by a process of inference.

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