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adjective

as in repaired

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verb

past tense of reconstruct
1
as in rebuilt
to build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed After the fire they had to completely reconstruct the building from the ground up.

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as in re-created
to find out and describe or show the way something (such as an event or series of events) happened

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Recent Examples of reconstructed
Adjective
Patrick Mahomes finished the job by scrambling up the middle, simultaneously giving the Chiefs an early lead and quieting some doubts about his reconstructed ACL and LCL. — Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 The reconstructed Florida State offense will be built around QB Ashton Daniels and RB Quintrevion Wisner, both arriving via the portal seeking fresh starts. — Eddie Timanus, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 The remainder of the site, or around two-thirds of the property, will be demolished and replaced with the music venue and the reconstructed facades. — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 Bosa seems committed to forging ahead in another ACL comeback, having rebounded well in 2021 with a reconstructed left knee and captured NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2022. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026 The reconstructed image preserved many of the storm’s key features. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026 The museum provides context for the archaeological landscape and includes a reconstructed Viking hall, but the enormous grassy burial mounds outside are the main draw. — Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 In 2024 researchers in Greece conducted a study on the performance of reconstructed sets of Mycenaean armor. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026 Its reconstructed Cryo-Chamber thermal housing channels continuous cooling directly to core hardware. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
Verb
The visitor area of Federal Prison Camp Bryan, where Fielder and Holmes would meet, had to be reconstructed essentially from memory. — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026 From these fragments of intelligence, scientists reconstructed journeys that took place largely beyond their view. — Amy L. Scarpignato, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 The revised model reconstructed changes in the glacier from the 1990s to the present, revealing changes four times greater than those captured by conventional models. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026 Strolling, moon-watching, reading, writing, burning incense, listening to the guqin and sharing a simple banquet were then reconstructed as experiences that visitors could enter and feel for themselves. — Li Jun, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 Since then, the 16-foot-by-32-foot church has been reconstructed, after archaeologists in 2021 uncovered the church’s original foundation, as well as 62 graves linked to the congregation. — Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Since then, the 16-foot by 32-foot church has been reconstructed, after archaeologists in 2021 uncovered the church's original foundation, as well as 62 graves linked to the congregation. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 Housed in a walk-in room situated within a larger exhibition hall, the Castelli copy is so faithful that even the gallery’s parquet floor has been reconstructed here. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Years later, investigators reconstructed the outbreak and found that human cases and livestock deaths followed a narrow zone extending downwind from the military facility. — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstructed
  1. repaired
  2. rebuilt
  3. re-created
  4. mended
  5. overhauled
  6. repeated
  7. patched
  8. reinvented
Adjective
  • The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of repaired
Verb
  • The effects crew also rebuilt Rocky’s transparent xenonite barriers digitally to remove reflections, hide operators and maintain the complicated play of light through the set.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The Paris installation is only a small part of the project, however, since the glass factory is being rebuilt in spaces including Red Clay Studio in Tamale and a British-era colonial building.
    — Gameli Hamelo, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of rebuilt
Verb
  • One example was Portland’s Pittock Mansion, recreated for a rooftop escape involving protagonist Prue McKeel.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Archaeologists and Colonial Williamsburg’s construction team modeled the new church out of pine and white oak woods, and recreated details like the original half-round brick steps.
    — Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of re-created
Adjective
  • Punk’s jump to WWE came with a lot of mended fences, and there have been little-to-no significant stories about Punk’s backstage issues in a WWE locker room since his 2023 return.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • But over the years, the two mended fences.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of mended
Verb
  • United earlier this year overhauled the way travelers earn miles to reward customers holding its credit cards.
    — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
  • It was overhauled by RED Inc Architects and DyeLot Interiors (whose projects also include Wayfarer Hotel, Tapestry Collection by Hilton and The Edwin Hotel, Autograph Collection) and has since been dubbed Napa’s first downtown urban resort.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of overhauled
Verb
  • When isolated issues in other states occur, even if proved untrue, the intense and repeated national media attention on them shakes voter confidence here at home.
    — Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers repeated this process dozens of times for both the cysteine and zinc proteases.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of repeated
Adjective
  • From mighty Rice’s whales to the humble rusty patched bumblebee, the 1973 act protects more than 1,600 listed endangered and threatened species and their habitats.
    — Medara Udoekong, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Several patched sections of sidewalk remain near the stumps.
    — Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Definition of patched
Verb
  • The promise of American socialism is still unfulfilled, but this is a country in which almost anything can be resisted, rethought, and reinvented.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Retro runners Soccer shoes have been reinvented into a lifestyle shoe, one that’s worn by just about everyone nowadays.
    — Renata Joffre, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of reinvented

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