Construe Synonyms

kən-stro͝o
To make understandable
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. explain
  2. decipher
  3. explicate
  4. expound
  5. interpret
  6. spell out
  7. enucleate
To express in another language, while systematically retaining the original sense
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. put
  2. render
  3. translate
To understand or explain the meaning of (something), especially in a particular way; interpret:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. explain

Words Related to Construe

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Construe Sentence Examples

  • The court will construe the Articles of Religion and formularies according to the legal rules for the interpretation of statutes and written instruments.

  • If the dog is allowed to play with certain stuffed toys, it may construe that to mean that any play thing is an acceptable target.

  • Under the impulse given by Lessing and Kant he turned to the original records of Christianity, and attempted to construe for himself the real significance of Christ.

  • This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

  • By them a written law has been substituted for that unwritten law which nations had been wont to construe with a latitude more or less corresponding to their power.

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