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construe::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | interpret, see |
| Type of | understand |
| Has types | allegorize, be amiss, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, literalise, literalize, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, mythicise, mythicize, read, read between the lines, allegorise, reinterpret, scan, spiritualise, spiritualize, take |
| Verb group | reckon, regard, view, consider, see |
| Derivation | construal |
Examples of construe
construe
For a start, how did you manage to construe anything political from what I said?
From the guardian.co.uk
Question their performance and some construe that as doubting their worthiness.
From the stltoday.com
It is tempting to construe it as the globus cruciger of the Holy Roman Empire.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It would be a mistake, however, to construe his banking strategy as public service.
From the time.com
Professional managers don't construe this as the final point in advertising.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I construe this as forced overtime, unlike the previous system of voluntary overtime.
From the newsday.com
Imagination is being able to construe a future, even though reality feels like a void.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It's not unusual for the Court to construe the meaning of penalty and tax.
From the economist.com
Admittedly, some did construe Reynolds'equable calm as cool and unfeeling.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Interpret: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
- Construal is a social psychological term that refers to the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them. Construals are the way a person comprehends the behavior or actions of others towards him or herself.
- A translation; An interpretation; To interpret or explain the meaning of something; To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; To translate
- (Construed) interpreted or explained
