English verb: construe | |||
1. | construe (cognition) make sense of; assign a meaning to | ||
Samples | What message do you see in this letter?. How do you interpret his behavior?. | ||
Synonyms | interpret, see | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | understand | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | allegorise, allegorize, be amiss, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, literalise, literalize, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, mythicise, mythicize, read, read, read, read between the lines, reinterpret, scan, spiritualise, spiritualize, take | ||
Verb group | consider, reckon, regard, see, view | ||