(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ something that has been destroyed or badly damaged, you build it and make it work again.
The government must ~ the shattered economy...
Although this part of Normandy was badly bombed during the war it has been completely ~ed.
= rebuild
VERB: V n, V n
2.
To ~ a system or policy means to change it so that it works in a different way.
She actually wanted to ~ the state and transform society...
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ an event that happened in the past, you try to get a complete understanding of it by combining a lot of small pieces of information.
He began to ~ the events of 21 December 1988, when flight 103 disappeared...
Elaborate efforts were made to ~ what had happened.
VERB: V n, V wh