[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to construct ; rebuild; make over:The church was burned in 1895, but reconstructed in 1897.", "to re-create in the mind from given or available information:The first step in solving this crime was to reconstruct the events of the murder.", "to cause to abandon earlier positions, beliefs, etc.; cause to adjust to new or current situations:He's a reconstructed man with progressive views on gender equality.The protesters and resisters refuse to be reconstructed.", "Historical Linguistics.to arrive at (hypothetical earlier forms of words, phonemic systems, etc.) by comparison of data from a later language or group of related languages."]}]