reconstructed

adj — 3 senses

reconstructed

adj

› Constructed again or anew.

1

Management Of buildings Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

Literal or figurative; financing; etc; financing; etc

  • There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
2

Of languages Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.

Literal or figurative; events; etc; events; etc

3

Of persons and institutions Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.

Literal or figurative

  • Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant
Derived terms
nonreconstructed, reconstructed language

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