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Definition of "reconstitute" [reconstitute]

  • To provide with a new structure: The parks commission has been reconstituted. (verb-transitive)
  • To bring (a liquid in concentrated or powder form) to normal strength by adding water. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "reconstitute" in a sentence
  • "Benicio Del Toros long-delayed classical abhorrence reconstitute is supposedly utterance in to cinemas in February."
  • "He noted an Obama / Biden plan to invest $15 billion per year in "alternative energy" but said the problem is determining how to "reconstitute" - or dispose - of nuclear waste."
  • "But without UNSCOM in there at all, we believe that this is -- there is a possibility that over months rather than years, he could reconstitute, which is one of the reasons that we have said that the situation with UNSCOM being out cannot persist indefinitely."