to construe
45
8.1
- verb
- /kənˈstruː/
- Formal
:
interpretar
- As an engine of history, migration could be construed as a sign of the times.
- construed to mean
- narrowly construed
- construed as a right
Now notice what universal is being construed as here.
- Now notice what universal is being construed as here.
- That phrase is almost always construed far too broadly.
- That's not the right way to go about construing any law.
- One being, once again, the media construes what you say.
- As the negative emotion ramps up in intensity, the amount of time that you construe as manageable shrinks.
- And, you know, having those can also be construed as patterns within a sense of self identity.
- And so he construed this entire plan to get the sympathy back.
- Taking, taking, taking a lapse of judgement in which they've, you know, made a gag which didn't work and which could be construed as offensive to some people.
- To resolve the ambiguity, the Fort the Court first considered quote construing the offer most strongly against the person who made it.
- I mean, the First Amendment, as it has been construed by this Supreme Court, is more to blame than the Second Amendment.
Examples
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It cannot be reasonably construed as anything else.
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And can you really construe leadership as service?
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You can construe this in several different ways.
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I think the State has had plenty of time to construe this statute.
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They're trying to construe the meaning of the pause.
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However, as Bandura explained, individuals have the ability to control how they construe and react to the environment.
Academic text (2013) -
Indeed, Rawls' theory can be construed to protect the interests of animals.
Academic text (1999) -
I sympathize with your position, I really do, but that could be construed as threatening behavior on your part.
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Courts should therefore aspire to give effect to this preference when construing these clauses.
Academic text (2017) -
In this context, you can construe his silence as agreement with the proposal.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To understand what something means
∞
1.0
To know the meaning of something
∞
5.6
Understand something in a particular way
386
3.3
To explain what something means
137
2.7
To understand the meaning of something
84
4.7
To imagine something or think about it in a certain way
9
4.3
To understand the meaning of something
How Accurate
∞
1.0
386
3.3
- Formal
45
8.1
53
1.8
23
4.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Construe comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and struere 'to build', and you can see the same root in construct and structure. So, to construe something is to 'build together' its meaning from words or actions.