RECONSTRUCTED Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in repaired

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verb

past tense of reconstruct

as in rebuilt

to build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed After the fire they had to completely reconstruct the building from the ground up.

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as in re-created

to find out and describe or show the way something (such as an event or series of events) happened

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The site will boast immersive technology, original artefacts and reconstructed sets to bring the Beatles’ story to life. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Patrick Mahomes finished the job by scrambling up the middle, simultaneously giving the Chiefs an early lead and quieting some doubts about his reconstructed ACL and LCL. — Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 The reconstructed Florida State offense will be built around QB Ashton Daniels and RB Quintrevion Wisner, both arriving via the portal seeking fresh starts. — Eddie Timanus, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 The remainder of the site, or around two-thirds of the property, will be demolished and replaced with the music venue and the reconstructed facades. — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 Bosa seems committed to forging ahead in another ACL comeback, having rebounded well in 2021 with a reconstructed left knee and captured NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2022. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026 The reconstructed image preserved many of the storm’s key features. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026 The museum provides context for the archaeological landscape and includes a reconstructed Viking hall, but the enormous grassy burial mounds outside are the main draw. — Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 In 2024 researchers in Greece conducted a study on the performance of reconstructed sets of Mycenaean armor. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026

Verb

By stringing multiple kill dates of moss samples taken from different spots, scientists reconstructed a map of an advancing ice margin. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026 The team reconstructed the evolutionary history of GxpS, the enzyme that produces GameXPeptides, to investigate how different peptide structures evolved. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 Marie said Nativo had agreed to let the widow live in the Malibu house, once it was reconstructed. — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 The cut was originally reconstructed in 2004 under the supervision of Russell and the film’s editor Michael Bradsell with the collaboration of Mark Kermode and Paul Joyce. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026 Leading the charge was Miu Miu, whose latest New Balance collaboration reconstructed the archival RC150 racing sneaker in punchy shades, from cobalt blue and neon yellow to tomato red and vibrant orange. — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 The visitor area of Federal Prison Camp Bryan, where Fielder and Holmes would meet, had to be reconstructed essentially from memory. — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026 From these fragments of intelligence, scientists reconstructed journeys that took place largely beyond their view. — Amy L. Scarpignato, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 Strolling, moon-watching, reading, writing, burning incense, listening to the guqin and sharing a simple banquet were then reconstructed as experiences that visitors could enter and feel for themselves. — Li Jun, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconstructed

Adjective

The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of repaired

Verb

Vucic’s ousting shows the downside of that approach, as the whole relationship will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Nothing was stable, every framework was being rebuilt in real time and the only thing that separated functional teams from struggling ones was behavioral reliability under extreme ambiguity.

— Amy Alexy, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of rebuilt

Verb

Mulder's dingy little base of operations has been stunningly recreated here, with both overt references and subtle nods that X-Files fans will appreciate.

— Ian Stokes, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Artists tracked Gosling’s on-set performance and recreated it within digital environments, allowing Fraser to choose new camera positions without discarding the original acting.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of re-created

Adjective

Punk’s jump to WWE came with a lot of mended fences, and there have been little-to-no significant stories about Punk’s backstage issues in a WWE locker room since his 2023 return.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
But over the years, the two mended fences.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of mended

Verb

As has been summarized in many articles about the Netflix purge, creative leadership at the company is being overhauled amid poor stock performance and declining user engagement on the platform.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
United earlier this year overhauled the way travelers earn miles to reward customers holding its credit cards.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of overhauled

Verb

In a statement to CBS News Miami, the sheriff's office repeated that the purchase does not require a new budget allocation.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
To add insult to injury, Amazon Prime Video accidentally made the film available on its platform — a mishap the service repeated recently with Jason Statham’s Mutiny.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of repeated

Adjective

From mighty Rice’s whales to the humble rusty patched bumblebee, the 1973 act protects more than 1,600 listed endangered and threatened species and their habitats.

— Medara Udoekong, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026
Several patched sections of sidewalk remain near the stumps.

— Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 26 May 2026

Definition of patched

Verb

At Scena, led by Executive Chef Francesco Bonato, Italian haute cuisine is masterfully reinvented with dishes that highlight the flavors of Italy and, more specifically, Milan.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Some of the looks are from the past, and looks that she’s reinvented.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

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