Reconstruct
[riːkən'strʌkt] or [,rikən'strʌkt]
Definition
(verb.) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically.
(verb.) reassemble mentally; 'reconstruct the events of 20 years ago'.
Checked by Flossie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
Typist: Rodger
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Rebuild, re-establish, construct again.
Checker: Maryann
Definition
v.t. to construct again: to rebuild.—n. Reconstruc′tion.—adj. Reconstruc′tionary.—n. Reconstruc′tionist.—adj. Reconstruc′tive able or tending to reconstruct.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- No class will abolish itself, materially alter its way of living, or drastically reconstruct itself, albeit no class is indisposed to co-operate in the unlimited socialization of any other class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They became the type on which the Parliament sought to reconstruct its entire army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meanwhile I will reconstruct what is past for your benefit, so that you may know the information which I still require. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have tried to reconstruct it from the measurements. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You can reconstruct what occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The three Consuls were installed at the Luxembourg palace, with two commissioners, to reconstruct the constitution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A panic swept Constantinople, which set itself to reconstruct its fortifications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, let us hope, when the Greek Empire is reconstructed, we will have a new Pindar, a new Sophocles, a new Plato. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. Plato. The Republic.
- The name of _Clermont_ was changed to the _North River_ the following spring, and the reconstructed steamboat continued in regular service on the Hudson for a number of years. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Parts of these old machines were found and the wheel reconstructed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Leaving his artillery to follow when the bridge should be reconstructed, he pushed on with the remainder of his command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The remembrance roused a whole train of association, and she lay in the darkness reconstructing the past out of which her present had grown. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Maura