reconstructed

reconstructed

1. simple past and past participle of reconstruct

reconstructed

1. (literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew.
   1. (of buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

      Antonyms: unreconstructed, unrestructured

      Coordinate term: restructured

      • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:

        There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.

   2. (of languages, events, worldviews, etc) Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.
   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.

      Antonyms: unreconstructed; unrepentant

      Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant

• reconstructed language