Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reconstruct"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reconstruct \Re`con*struct"\ (-str?kt"), v. t.
To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or
anew.
Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reconstruct
v 1: of past events [syn: {construct}, {retrace}]
2: build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a
bomb" [syn: {rebuild}]
3: cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
4: do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these
rooms" [syn: {remodel}, {redo}]
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