Synonyms of reconstructing

reconstructing

verb

present participle of reconstruct

1

as in rebuilding

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.

Related Words

• rebuilding
• overhauling
• repairing
• rehabilitating
• restoring
• regenerating
• modifying
• refurbishing
• renovating
• aiding
• healing
• fixing up
• furbishing
• revamping
• patching
• reconditioning
• rehabbing
• helping
• fixing
• preparing
• curing
• maintaining
• doctoring
• reviving
• mending
• servicing
• improving
• conditioning
• adjusting
• revitalizing
• renewing
• readying
• reforming
• rectifying
• correcting
• rejuvenating
• redressing
• enhancing
• refreshing
• freshening
• righting
• enriching
• ameliorating
• caring (for)
• bettering
• refreshening
• meliorating

Dissimilar Words

• wrecking
• breaking
• damaging
• ruining
• hurting
• impairing
• injuring
• harming
• spoiling
• defacing
• disfiguring
• marring
• vandalizing
• disabling
• mutilating
• crippling
• flawing
• blemishing
• mangling
• maiming

2

as in re-creating

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

Related Words

• re-creating
• reinventing
• repeating
• reconceptualizing
• re-enacting
• reimagining
• reduplicating
• piecing together
• reviewing
• reexamining
• redefining
• rethinking
• revisiting
• reconceiving
• solving
• reevaluating
• reanalyzing
• resolving
• reconsidering
• working
• deducing
• unraveling
• rehearing
• reenvisioning
• answering
• inferring
• reweighing
• readdressing
• deciding
• cracking
• reasoning
• judging
• deciphering
• gathering
• figuring out
• working out
• decoding
• riddling (out)
• untangling
• reassessing
• reexploring
• concluding
• divining
• speculating
• doping (out)
• revising
• assuming
• conjecturing
• reappraising
• straightening (out)
• reforming
• correcting
• presuming
• rectifying
• puzzling (out)
• guessing
• untying
• clearing (up)
• remedying
• ironing out
• amending
• reinvestigating
• unriddling
• breaking
• restudying
• unscrambling
• emending

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reconstructing

The post-World War II geopolitical landscape is reconstructing itself faster than the Ginza district, which was devastated in the last film and continues to look like a battlefield. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

Anthropic’s biology research team used Claude throughout the investigation, from identifying promising proteins to reconstructing their molecular architecture. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

The bridge project includes removing the existing west leaf of the bridge, positioning the replacement bridge leaf and reconstructing CTA rails. — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

The latter one involved slowly taking parts of a bathroom sink at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and reconstructing it at the gallery for Met’s Sink Of Theseus. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

This poetic début novel, a finalist for the Booker Prize, is narrated largely by an unnamed curator who specializes in reconstructing scenes from the past. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Frost likens the distinction between conserving a kitchen in place and reconstructing one in a museum to the difference between a musical instrument still being played and one only on display. — Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

After plowing away at the problem for a while, Claude reportedly discovered the game was reconstructing the scene's lighting on every frame, even when nothing changed, resulting in heavy CPU usage. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026

Burke, who was reconstructing fossil gharials for his doctoral project, noted the subtle differences between the unidentified species and the false gharial, and started to work on an up-to-date description in December 2023. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026