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reconstruct

 verb
     
Related topics: Construction
re‧con‧struct [transitive]
1 to produce a complete description or copy of an event by collecting together pieces of information:
Police were reconstructing the movements of the murdered couple.
2TBC to build something again after it has been destroyed or damaged:
The task ahead is to reconstruct the building.
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