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DECONSTRUCT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deconstruct ... he / she / it deconstructs
Past simple: deconstructed
Past participle: deconstructed
-ing form: deconstructing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deconstruct" is one way to...):
interpret; rede (give an interpretation or explanation to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue deconstruct the movie
Derivation:
deconstruction (a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning)
