reconstruct · verb
Meanings and examples
To work out how a past event happened by examining the available evidence.
Investigators reconstructed the sequence of events from messages and camera records.
The historian tried to reconstruct daily life from letters, bills, and photographs.
Without reliable witnesses, it was difficult to reconstruct what happened before the fire.
Forms
- reconstruct base form
- reconstructs third-person singular present
- reconstructed past tense and past participle
- reconstructing present participle