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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
reconstruct
/ˌriːkənˈstrʌkt/
verb
to rebuild something after it has been destroyed
- “We only lack a few details to precisely reconstruct the crime scene.”Tatoeba
- “The creation of most schools was not to transform society, but to reconstruct society.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))