Definitions for construes

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construes con·strue

Spelling: [verb kuh n-stroo or, esp. British, Construes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 596 anagrams from letters in construes (cenorsstu).

Definitions for construes

noun

1. the act of construing.
2. something that is construed.

verb (used with object)

1. to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
2. to deduce by inference or interpretation; infer:
3. to translate, especially orally.
4. to analyze the syntax of; to rehearse the applicable grammatical rules of:
5. to arrange or combine (words, phrases, etc.) syntactically.

verb (used without object)

1. to admit of grammatical analysis or interpretation.

Origin of construes

1325-75; Middle English construen Latin construere to put together, build, equivalent to con- con- + struere to pile up, arrange, perhaps akin to sternere to spread, <

Examples for construes

No thought on our part connects and construes the low, gentle voices.

That is an obsolete idea which construes Southern politics as a struggle for power between whites and blacks.

He construes the give and take of the debate-game with extreme rigour.

True to the nature of oracles, this one has a double meaning, and Semiramis construes it in the wrong way.

"Suave mari magno;" or, as your new Premier, if he be still Premier, construes.

Dodge, too, takes cognisance of an impulse and construes a motive.

That Campfield construes gayness to be a dangerous act may be rooted in his faulty understanding of HIV and AIDS.

The two pounds he construes to be the reason and understanding.

Brasseur construes these words as in apposition to vach: “Whom shall we make our master of arms,” etc.

He construes treaties and asserts the rights of our government and our citizens under them.