See construe in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To make understandable:
decipher, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, spell out. (Archaic) enucleate. Idiom: put into plain English. See explainTo understand in a particular way:
interpret, read, take. See understandTo express in another language, while systematically retaining the original sense:
put, render, translate. See words
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