English
Etymology
re- construct
Verb
reconstruct (third-person singular simple present reconstructs present participle reconstructing simple past and past participle reconstructed
To construct again ; to restore .
2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail , page 54 :[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.
Translations
to construct again
Azerbaijani: bərpa etmək (az) , yenidən qurmaq yenidən yaratmaq
Belarusian: рэканструява́ць impf or pf ( rekanstrujavácʹ )
Bulgarian: преустройвам (bg) ( preustrojvam ) , реконструирам (bg) ( rekonstruiram )
Catalan: reconstruir (ca)
Danish: rekonstruere (da) , genopbygge genskabe
Dutch: reconstrueren (nl) , wederopbouwen
Esperanto: rekonstrui
Finnish: jälleenrakentaa (fi) , ennallistaa (fi) ( to restore ) , rakentaa uudelleen ( to restore ) , rekonstruoida (fi)
Galician: reconstruir
German: wiederaufbauen (de) , rekonstruieren (de)
Hungarian: újjáépít rekonstruál (hu) , helyreállít (hu)
Japanese: 再構成 ( さいこうせい , saikōsei )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Norwegian:
Bokmål: rekonstruere gjenoppbygge gjenskape
Nynorsk: rekonstruere rekonstruera byggje opp att attskape
Polish: rekonstruować impf
Romanian: reconstrui (ro) , restaura (ro)
Russian: реконструи́ровать (ru) impf or pf ( rekonstruírovatʹ )
Spanish: reconstruir (es)
Swedish: återuppbygga (sv) , rekonstruera (sv)
Ukrainian: реконструюва́ти impf or pf ( rekonstrujuváty )
Vietnamese: phục dựng
See also
Further reading
“reconstruct ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “reconstruct ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC “reconstruct ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
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