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RECONSTRUCT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reconstruct" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Do over, as of (part of) a house

Example:

We are remodeling these rooms

Synonyms:

reconstruct; redo; remodel

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reconstruct" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reassemble mentally

Example:

reconstruct the events of 20 years ago

Synonyms:

construct; reconstruct; retrace

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "reconstruct" is one way to...):

conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reconstruct"):

etymologise; etymologize (construct the history of words)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

reconstruction (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Build again

Example:

The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb

Synonyms:

rebuild; reconstruct

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "reconstruct" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Domain category:

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The men reconstruct the bookshelves

Derivation:

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Return to its original or usable and functioning condition

Example:

restore the forest to its original pristine condition

Synonyms:

reconstruct; restore

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "reconstruct" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reconstruct"):

decompress; uncompress (restore to its uncompressed form)

rehabilitate (help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute)

rehabilitate (restore to a state of good condition or operation)

defibrillate (stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks)

reinstate (restore to the previous state or rank)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

reconstructive (helping to restore to good condition)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Using marine seismic technology deployed from an ice breaker, researchers were able to reconstruct how glaciers on the Sabrina Coast have advanced and retreated over the past 50 million years.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

A relatively complete cranium from the Afar region is a valuable addition to the hominin fossil record, providing another piece in the puzzle for reconstructing hominin adaptation and evolution.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)

Meanwhile I will reconstruct what is past for your benefit, so that you may know the information which I still require.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They measured three oxygen and two hydrogen isotopes to reconstruct the history of the lake water between 800 and 1000 CE.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)

The individual responses from the nanowire sections can then be directly fed into a computer algorithm to reconstruct the incident light spectrum.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

The detailed microscopic features of the Rapetosaurus bones revealed patterns similar to those of living animals and made it possible for the scientists to reconstruct the beginning of the dinosaur's post-hatching life.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The position of the atoms can be reconstructed using computerized analysis of the diffraction pattern.

(Atomic Resolution X-Ray Crystallography, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings mark a breakthrough in the field of ancient biomolecular studies and could solve some of the biggest mysteries of animal and human biology by allowing scientists to accurately reconstruct evolution from further back in time than ever before.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)

By studying what we see in the rocks to reconstruct what the eruption was like, we can also know what kind of conditions the magma is stored in, but it’s difficult to understand what’s happening in the deeper parts of volcanic systems.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

Phenomenon in a reconstructed image where true activity concentration of the tissue immediately adjacent to an object being studied, not displayed totally in its own corresponding pixels (voxels), appears spatially smeared into pixels (voxels) of this object.

(Image Spill-in, NCI Thesaurus)