reconstructed
part of speech
verb form (past tense and past participle of reconstruct: reconstruct, reconstructs, reconstructed, reconstructing); adjective (a reconstructed village)
meaning for a pupil
1) Reconstructed means built again after being damaged or destroyed. tree →
2) Reconstructed can mean worked out or pieced together from clues, like a reconstructed event or crime. tree →
3) As an adjective, it describes a copy built to show how something used to look, such as a reconstructed Iron Age house. tree →
sense 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 →
- We visited a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse. tree →
- Scientists reconstructed the dinosaur from its bones. tree →
- The police reconstructed the accident to see what went wrong. tree →
- After the war, the city centre was reconstructed stone by stone. tree →
- Shakespeare's Globe in London is a reconstructed theatre. tree →
- The face of the ancient king was reconstructed using computer models. tree →
note
Re- + construct + -ed. A reconstructed building is a new copy, not the original — historians say how much is guesswork. Noun: reconstruction.
Trees and pragmatics
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