Meaning & use

reconstruct

verb·Academic

To build something again after it has been damaged or destroyed, or to piece together past events.

See it in a sentence

Engineers reconstructed the bridge using the same design after the flood destroyed the original.

Detectives used witness statements to reconstruct the exact sequence of events that night.

A note on using this word

Reconstruct applies both to physically rebuilding structures and to mentally piecing together a sequence of past events from evidence.

Words with a similar meaning

rebuildrecreate

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Words with an opposite meaning

destroydemolish

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