reconstructed en · ADJ
Meanings
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(of buildings, qualifier:literal or figurative; financing; etc; financing; etc) Constructed again or anew. ▸ Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.
There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
- (of languages, qualifier:literal or figurative; events; etc; events; etc) Constructed again or anew. ▸ Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.
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(of persons and institutions, qualifier:literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew. ▸ Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant
Antonyms
unreconstructed · unreconstructed · unrepentant · unrestructured
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Deriveds
reconstructed language · nonreconstructed
Synonyms
Translations (7)
fr reconstruit (rebuilt) · nl gereconstrueerd (rebuilt) · ca reconstruït (rebuilt) · ro reconstruit (rebuilt) · ro reclădit (rebuilt) · nl omgebouwd (rebuilt) · de rekonstruiert (rebuilt)