"reconstruct" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reconstruct.wav [Southern-England] Forms: reconstructs [present, singular, third-person], reconstructing [participle, present], reconstructed [participle, past], reconstructed [past]
Etymology: re- + construct Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|construct}} re- + construct Head templates: {{en-verb}} reconstruct (third-person singular simple present reconstructs, present participle reconstructing, simple past and past participle reconstructed)
  1. To construct again; to restore. Translations (to construct again): bərpa etmək (Azerbaijani), yenidən qurmaq (Azerbaijani), yenidən yaratmaq (Azerbaijani), рэканструява́ць (rekanstrujavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), преустройвам (preustrojvam) (Bulgarian), реконструирам (rekonstruiram) (Bulgarian), reconstruir (Catalan), rekonstruere (Danish), genopbygge (Danish), genskabe (Danish), reconstrueren (Dutch), wederopbouwen (Dutch), rekonstrui (Esperanto), jälleenrakentaa (Finnish), ennallistaa (english: to restore) (Finnish), rakentaa uudelleen (english: to restore) (Finnish), rekonstruoida (Finnish), reconstruir (Galician), wiederaufbauen (German), rekonstruieren (German), újjáépít (Hungarian), rekonstruál (Hungarian), helyreállít (Hungarian), 再構成 (saikōsei) (alt: さいこうせい) (Japanese), rekonstruere (Norwegian Bokmål), gjenoppbygge (Norwegian Bokmål), gjenskape (Norwegian Bokmål), rekonstruere (Norwegian Nynorsk), rekonstruera (Norwegian Nynorsk), byggje opp att (Norwegian Nynorsk), attskape (Norwegian Nynorsk), rekonstruować [imperfective] (Polish), reconstrui (Romanian), restaura (Romanian), реконструи́ровать (rekonstruírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), reconstruir (Spanish), återuppbygga (Swedish), rekonstruera (Swedish), реконструюва́ти (rekonstrujuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), phục dựng (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-reconstruct-en-verb-2Yj-rX29 Disambiguation of 'to construct again': 99 1
  2. To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.
    Sense id: en-reconstruct-en-verb-AqfIbJY1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 43 57
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: reconstruction, Reconstruction, reconstructive, deduce, extrapolate, infer

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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rekonstruować"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "reconstrui"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "restaura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rekonstruírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "реконструи́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "reconstruir"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "återuppbygga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "rekonstruera"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rekonstrujuváty",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "реконструюва́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to construct again",
      "word": "phục dựng"
    }
  ],
  "word": "reconstruct"
}

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