RECONSTRUCT


Meaning of RECONSTRUCT in English

(~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

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