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/ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/
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/ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkt/
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/ˌɹiːkənˈstɹɐkt/
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Verb
To construct again; to restore.
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As it was necessary to reconstruct the culvert close to the original position, the hazards of tunnelling through clay in an unstable condition, due to the absorption of water, had to be reduced by the application of electro-osmosis to dry out the material.
The greatest number of bridges requiring modification are overline bridges, and many methods are adopted in reconstructing and altering them to give increased clearances.
[…] 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, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
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But reconstructing the scene among those silent walls in the precarious light, with the unforgotten ghosts of other crimes ready to emerge from every shadow, I can conceive that no more frightful spectre than this sombre being, dripping red from hands and face at every step, has ever walked.
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reassemble mentally
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reconstruct the events of 20 years ago
build again
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The house was rebuilt after it was hit by a bomb
cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
return to its original or usable and functioning condition
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restore the forest to its original pristine condition
do over, as of (part of) a house
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We are remodeling these rooms