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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 | ||
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