reconstruct
/ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō Latin cōnstruōder. Latin cōnstrūctusbor. English construct English reconstruct From re- + construct.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkt/
- British English: /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/