Reconstitute

Definition: Reconstitute

Reconstitute

Verb

1. Construct or form anew or prvide with a new structure; "After his accident, he had to restructure his life"; "The governing board was reconstituted".

Date "reconstitute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Synonym: Reconstitute

Synonym: restructure (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: to reconstitute its own funds (economics, finance).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restoration	Reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reconstitute

Specialty definitions using "reconstitute": Pralidoxime Compounds ♦ re-engineering ♦ totipotent stem cell. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A book of the beginnings, containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Germany undertakes to deliver to Belgium, through the Reparation Commission, within six months of the coming into force of the present Treaty, in order to enable Belgium to reconstitute two great artistic works: (1) The leaves of the triptych of the Mystic Lamb painted by the Van Eyck brothers, formerly in the Church of St. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Germany	These bans (the first issued by the Federal Government since 1995) allow the Government to seize the groups' assets; however, members are free to reconstitute themselves under a new name. (references)
	Senegal	In response to the Mouride protest, the Minister of Culture promised to review the film and reconstitute the Censoring Commission; however, by year's end, a decree to reconstitute the Censoring Commission had not been promulgated. (references)
Economic History	Austria	At the Moscow conference in 1943, the Allies declared their intention to liberate Austria and reconstitute it as a free and independent state. (references)
Human Rights	Bosnia and Herzegovina	At year's end, the ICRC was attempting to reconstitute the group with new representatives. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Reconstitute" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "Reconstitute" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95.35%	41	53,521
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.65%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Language		Translations for "reconstitute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		реконструирам (reconstruct, remodel, reshuffle, restore). (various references)

Chinese		重新组成. (various references)

Czech		reorganizovat (reorganize). (various references)

Dutch		de omvang vh eigen vermogen herstellen (to reconstitute its own funds). (various references)

French		reconstituons, reconstituez, reconstituer (reconstruct, retrace, retrospect). (various references)

German		rekonstituieren, wiederherstellen (cure, heal, re establish, rebuild, recover, redress, remedy, renew, restore, to reconstitute, to reconstruct, to refit, to restore, undelete), neu einrichten. (various references)

Greek		επαναφέρω (bring back, bring round, restore, retrieve, to clear, to reset, to restore), ανακατασκευάζω. (various references)

Hungarian		újraképez (regenerate, to reconstitute), újraalkot (to reconstitute). (various references)

Italian		ricostituire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		元に戻す (to reconstitute). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もとにもどす (to reconstitute). (various references)

Korean		재구성하십시�". (various references)

Manx		aayannoo (reconstruction, repetition), aavunnaghey (re-establish), aachummey (deform, deformation, hash up, reconstitution, reform, reformation, remodel, renew, renovate). (various references)

Pig Latin		econstituteray

Portuguese		reconstituir (restore). (various references)

Romanian		reconstitui (reform, restore, retrace). (various references)

Russian		воссоздавать (reconstruct, recreate), воспроизводить (render, reproduce). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rekonstituisati. (various references)

Spanish		reconstituir (reconstruct, recontruct, recover). (various references)

Turkish		yeniden oluşturmak (revive), yeniden kurmak (re establish, reconstruct, redraw, reinstate, rewind), yeniden düzenlemek (readjust, recompose, reconvert, redeploy, redraw, reform, reorganize), sulandırmak (blear, cut, dilute, doctor, lengthen, water, water down), su katmak (add water, qualify, water, water down), parçaları birleştirip sonuca varmak. (various references)

Ukranian		відтворювати (copy, play back, reproduce). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reconstitute": reconstituted, reconstitutes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reconstitute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reconstitue, reconstituter, Riconsciuta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reconstitute" (pronounced rēkÄ"nstutuw't)
9	-k Ä" n s t u t uw' t	constitute.
7	-n s t u t uw' t	institute.
6	-s t u t uw' t	destitute, prostitute, restitute, substitute.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: stonecutter.
	-2 letters: constitute, cornettist.
	-3 letters: ceintures, centuries, cinereous, contester, cornetist, cotrustee, countries, cretinous, enuretics, erections, intercuts, intersect, neoterics, neurotics, resection, restitute, rottenest, secretion, tenorites, tinctures, toreutics, trecentos, troutiest.
	-4 letters: ceinture, centrist, cerusite, citreous, citterns, coenures, coinsure, cointers, construe, contrite, corniest, coteries, cottiers, counters, counties, curettes, cutesier, enticers, enuretic, erection, esoteric, esurient, eucrites, insecure, insetter, instruct, intercut, interest, neoteric, nettiest, neurotic, noisette, noticers, nuttiest, octettes, oneriest, outcries, outsteer, recounts, reticent, retinues, reunites, routines, ructions, runtiest, ruttiest, secretin, seicento, serotine, sinecure, snottier, snoutier, stenotic, sternite, strontic, tectites, tenorist, tenorite, tentiest, teosinte, tincture, tonetics, tonettes, toreutic, trecento, trientes, tritones, trounces, unerotic.
	-5 letters: cenotes, censure, centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cistron, citrons, citrous, cittern, coenure, coenuri, coesite, coiners, cointer, contest, contuse, cornets, cornute, cortins, coterie, cotters, cottier, counter, couters, cretins, cronies, curette, curites, curtest, cutesie, cutters, cutties, encores, encrust, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, entrust, erotics, estrone, eucrite, icterus, incrust, intorts, intrust, necrose, netters, nettier, neuters, nitrous, norites, noticer, notices, nutsier, nutters, nuttier, octette, oestrin, orceins, orients, outseen, outsert, recites, recoins, recount, retines, retints, retinue, retunes, reunite, rosette, routine, ruction, scottie, scouter, scutter, section, senecio, sincere, stentor, stinter, stonier, stourie, stouten, stouter, strette, stretti, stretto, stutter, suction, tectite, tenours, tenrecs, tenters, tentier, tenures, tenutos, tercets, testier, tetters, tierces, tinters, titters, tonetic, tonette, toniest, tonsure, totters, tourist, touters, tricots, trienes, trisect, tritest, tritone, tritons, triunes, trounce, trustee, tureens, tutties, uniters, urinose, uterine.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: reconstituted, reconstitutes.
	+4 letters: counterpetitions, counterterrorist.
	+5 letters: counterstrategies, counterstrategist, counterterrorists.
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