Construe

Definition: Construe

Construe

Verb

1. Make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?" "How do you interpret his behavior?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "construe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Construe

Interpretation

Verb: interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.

Crosswords: Construe

Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it? (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt)

The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law. (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt)

The Winning of Miss Construe (1916)

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Expression using "construe": construe with. Additional references.

Albanian

shpjegoj (account for, clarify, define, elucidate, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten, straighten out, take to pieces, tell, unriddle), interpretoj (explain, interpret, perform, personate, play, portray, read, take). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسر (account for, clarify, clear, clear up, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, illustrate, interpret, make clear), ‏حلل (analyse, analyze, anatomize, dissect, resolve, take apart, take to pieces, test), ‏ترجم (interpret, put into words, translate, transpose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), тълкувам (comment, explain, explicate, expound, gloss, interpret, read, render, translate), превеждам дума по дума. (various references)

Chinese 

串讲 (Construed, Construing). (various references)

Czech

chápat (appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, follow, get it, grasp, perceive, see, take, take in, understand), vykládat (discharge, inlay, narrate, panel, talk), rozebírat (analyze), interpretovat (interpret, represent). (various references)

Farsi 

تفسیرکردن (Annotate, Expound, Interpret, Translate), تعبیرکردن (Comment, Phrase, Put, Read), استنباطکردن (Deduce, Divine, Educe, Induct, Infer). (various references)

French

interpréter (to construe), exprimer (conceive, couch), expliquer, analyser. (various references)

German

konstruieren (build, construct, engineer, to construe, to design). (various references)

Greek 

ερμηνεύω (define, expound, interpret, read). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתר�'ם (render, translate), לפרש (elucidate, explain, gloss, interpret). (various references)

Hungarian

pontos fordítás (construing, near translation), mondat elemzése (construing). (various references)

Indonesian

mengartikan (bear a meaning for, interpret), menerangkan (declarative, elucidate, explain, settle), menafsirkan (conjugate, interprete). (various references)

Italian

interpretare (accept, execute, interpret, play, portray, read, render, translate, understand), analizzare (analyse, analyze, explore, scan, test). (various references)

Manx

toiggal (apprehension, comprehend, construction, figure; comprehension, realization, realize, understand), peeshaghey (piece), cur bun er (interpret, stock). (various references)

Pig Latin

onstruecay

Portuguese

construir (brick, build, construct, engineer, fabricate, frame, hammer out, make, raise, rear, set up), traduzir (render, translate), interpretar (expound, interpret, read, rede, support), explicar (account, advance, clarify, define, enucleate, explain, explicate, expound, gloss, illustrate, instantiate, interpret, justify, lay out, represent, resolve, solve, tell, to explain, unriddle), analisar (analyse, analyze, assay). (various references)

Romanian

traduce (do, express, interpret, read, render, translate), tãlmãci (comment, explain, expound, gloss, interpret, read, take, translate), interpreta (act, explain, expound, interpret, paraphrase, play, read, render, represent, spell, take, translate), explica (account, account for, define, elucidate, enlighten, enunciate, explain, explicate, expound, illuminate, illumine, interpret, justify, riddle, show, untie, vindicate), analiza sintactic, îmbina în propoziţie. (various references)

Russian 

разбирать (analyse, analyze, decipher, demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, make out, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unmake), толковать текст. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upravljati (administer, administrate, direct, govern, head, manage, maneuver, manoeuvre, mastermind, navigate, rule, steer), protumačiti (have out, interpret, make out). (various references)

Spanish

traducir (interpret, put, put across, render, translate), interpretar (interpret, perform, play, read, read into, translate), analizar (analyse, analyze, anatomize, assay, break down, dissect). (various references)

Swedish

tolka (interpret, read). (various references)

Turkish

yorumlamak (comment, commentate, decipher, explicate, expound, gloss, interpret, paraphrase, read, render), tercüme etmek (interpret, put, translate), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, search, study, survey, twig, vet, view), çeviri yapmak, çözümlemek (analyse, analyze, clear up, resolve, solve, sort, sort out). (various references)

Ukrainian

пояснювати (account, account for, analogize, attribute, authorize, clear, comment, elucidate, explain, illustrate, rationalize, show, translate), перекладати дослівно. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đoạn văn để dịch từng chữ. (various references)

ininterpretabilis, interpretandi, interpretantes, interpretaretur, interpretata, interpretatum, interpretatur, interpretetur, interpretor. (various references)

construere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "construe": construed, construes. (additional references)

Words ending with "construe": misconstrue. (additional references)

Words containing "construe": misconstrued, misconstrues. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Construe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cointreu, constr, constrew, constri, constru, construce, construx, consture, contrue, conture, costure, Kunstraum. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: counters, recounts, trounces.

-1 letter: contuse, cornets, cornute, counter, couters, encrust, recount, scouter, tenours, tonsure, trounce.

-2 letters: censor, centos, cerous, contes, cornet, cornus, corset, coster, counts, course, courts, couter, crones, crouse, cruets, cruset, curets, eructs, escort, nestor, noters, ounces, ouster, outers, recons, rectos, rectus, recuts, rouens, routes, scoter, sector, source, souter, stoner, stoure, tenors, tenour, tensor, toners.

+1 letter: confuters, construed, construes, consulter, countries, courantes, courtesan, cretinous, curbstone, nectarous, neurotics, nocturnes, outrances, trouncers.

+2 letters: centurions, confitures, consulters, continuers, counterspy, countersue, courantoes, courtesans, curbstones, discounter, encounters, introduces, nucleators, occurrents, outscorned, overcounts, raconteurs, reconquest, recontours, recounters, rediscount, reductions, supertonic, surjection, truncheons, uncorseted, undercoats, unescorted.

+3 letters: aeronautics, auctioneers, concurrents, conductress, congruities, conjectures, construable, constructed, consumerist, contextures, contributes, corruptness, coterminous, cotransduce, counteracts, counterbids, counterions, counterpose, countershot, countersign, countersink, counterstep, countersued, countersues, countersuit, countersunk, countertops, countryseat, countryside, courtesying, courtliness, deconstruct, destruction, discounters, documenters, enunciators, eructations, fluorescent, intercourse, introducers, misconstrue, neuroticism, noncustomer, persecution, precautions, preconquest, procrustean, prosecuting, prosecution, quercitrons, reconquests, reconstruct, recoupments, rediscounts, rencounters, scouthering, scroungiest, stonecutter, supertonics, surjections, ulcerations, undercounts, undercrofts.