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re·con·struct

reconstruct

pronunciation:
ri kn struhkt
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: reconstructed, reconstructing, reconstructs
definition 1: to make over or construct again.
The doctor reconstructed his knee after the accident.
definition 2: to make over in the mind or as a function of memory.
The police reconstructed the crime from their available evidence.