(reconstructs, reconstructing, reconstructed)
1.
If you reconstruct something that has been destroyed or badly damaged, you build it and make it work again.
The government must reconstruct the shattered economy...
Although this part of Normandy was badly bombed during the war it has been completely reconstructed.
= rebuild
VERB: V n, V n
2.
To reconstruct a system or policy means to change it so that it works in a different way.
She actually wanted to reconstruct the state and transform society...
VERB: V n
3.
If you reconstruct an event that happened in the past, you try to get a complete understanding of it by combining a lot of small pieces of information.
He began to reconstruct the events of 21 December 1988, when flight 103 disappeared...
Elaborate efforts were made to reconstruct what had happened.
VERB: V n, V wh