reconstructverb [ T ]
uk/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌkt/us/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌkt/C1 to build or create again something that has been damaged or destroyed:
The post-war government had the enormous task of reconstructing the city.
to change a system or organization completely, so that it works more effectively:
They were given the task of reconstructing the city's public transport system.
C2 If you reconstruct something that has happened in the past, you combine a lot of information in order to get a complete description of what happened:
The police tried to reconstruct the crime using the statements of witnesses.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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Changing
Classifying and creating order