reconstitute
verbUK /ɹiːˈkɒnstɪtjuːt/ · US /ɹiˈkɑnstɪˌt(j)ut/
Etymology From re- + constitute.
1
to construct something anew, or in a different manner
- The public execution, then, has a juridico-political function. It is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 55:
2
to add liquid to a concentrated or dehydrated food to return it to its original consistency
- Derived terms
- reconstitutability, reconstitutable, reconstituteable, reconstitutor