reconstruction

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Re=con=struc=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

reconstruction, n. 

•  The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

reconstruction

copy, duplication, imitation, palingenesis, re-creation, re-formation, reassembling, reassembly, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment, refabrication, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, remodeling, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, revision, revival

ROGET THESAURUS

reconstruction

Restoration

N restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction, Phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure, sanation, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness, restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable, in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi- meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum.