1. To restore or form something again, sometimes with altered components.
2. To restore a dried or concentrated substance to a usable form by adding liquid.
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Words that belong together
- reconstitute a body
- reconstitute a system
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The committee was reconstituted with revised responsibilities.
The records allowed the system to be reconstituted in part.
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Word forms
- Base
- reconstitute
- Past tense
- reconstituted
- Past participle
- reconstituted
- Present participle
- reconstituting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reconstitute
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reconstituting
- Present perfect
- have/has reconstituted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reconstituting
- Past
- reconstituted
- Past continuous
- was/were reconstituting
- Past perfect
- had reconstituted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reconstituting
- Future
- will reconstitute
- Future continuous
- will be reconstituting
- Future perfect
- will have reconstituted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reconstituting
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: reconstitute; reconstitutes; reconstituted; reconstituted; reconstituting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: renewed assessment, explicit formulation, classification and framing. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: reconstitutes.
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