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# reconstructed

verb form (past tense and past participle of reconstruct: reconstruct, reconstructs, reconstructed, reconstructing); adjective (a reconstructed village)

«reconstructed» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Reconstructed means built again after being damaged or destroyed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#m1)
2. Reconstructed can mean worked out or pieced together from clues, like a reconstructed event or crime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#m2)
3. As an adjective, it describes a copy built to show how something used to look, such as a reconstructed Iron Age house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, museums have reconstructed Viking ships, Roman forts and Stone Age houses so we can see past life; a reconstructed object is not the original. In science, scientists reconstructed what dinosaurs looked like from fossils. In news, police reconstructed what happened from cameras and witnesses. After wars or earthquakes, cities are reconstructed.

### Examples

- The old bridge was reconstructed after the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x1)
- We visited a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x2)
- Scientists reconstructed the dinosaur from its bones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x3)
- The police reconstructed the accident to see what went wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x4)
- After the war, the city centre was reconstructed stone by stone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x5)
- Shakespeare's Globe in London is a reconstructed theatre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x6)
- The face of the ancient king was reconstructed using computer models. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/#x7)

### Note

Re- + construct + -ed. A reconstructed building is a new copy, not the original — historians say how much is guesswork. Noun: reconstruction.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «reconstructed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstructed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«reconstructed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/reconstructed.html) on Mova free.