reconstruct

Verb

1. To construct again; to restore.
   • 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...
   • The greatest number of bridges requiring modification are overline bridges, and many methods are adopted in reconstructing and altering them to give increased clearances. - 1958 July 5, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R....
   • […] 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...

   Antonyms: deconstruct

   Hypernyms: construct

2. To attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
   • 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...

   Coordinate Terms: deconstruct reenact