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Meanings of construe in English

Portuguese
entender
Catalan
construir
Spanish
construir

To give the meaning or intention of.

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        entender
        Usage of construe in English
        1
        In so far as her mind could construe, she acknowledged benefits received.
        Sister Carrie: A Novel
        2
        He knew that Sung Ki would construe it as solely for him.
        Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
        3
        This is a now fashionable proverb, which I must construe to you.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
        4
        But you must not, my dearest friend, construe common gratitude into love.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
        5
        Gentlemen, I'll let you construe your own contracts according to your consciences.
        All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
        6
        I hope I am not to construe this as a threat?
        Paul of dune
        7
        Do not construe that such content is either endorsed or verified by us.
        NY Magazine
        8
        I guess the law will construe it as a waiver of his claim.
        A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
        9
        It was like setting a double-first to construe the first book of Cæsar.
        Patsy
        10
        He tried in vain to construe Oenone, and to make sense of Lamia.
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        11
        I cannot construe it, but I can tell you the story.
        Greenmantle
        12
        I would construe any further dissembling on your part as a deliberate insult.
        The lies of locke lamora
        13
        If you return without reception, Lodge and others will construe it as weakness.
        Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
        14
        There- IbelieveI can construe that passage as well as Porson.
        Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1
        15
        In what other way was it possible for him to construe these signals?
        Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
        16
        Mr. Ben Tillett evidently knows Latin enough to construe proximus ardet.
        Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
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