verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sth) to build or make sth again that has been damaged or that no longer exists:
Old London Bridge was bought by an American and reconstructed in the US. * They have tried to reconstruct the settlement as it would have been in Iron Age times.
2 to be able to describe or show exactly how a past event happened, using the information you have gathered:
Investigators are trying to reconstruct the circumstances of the crash.
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