Word Meanings - CONSTRUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To apply the rules of syntax to so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate. 2. To put a construction upon; to explain the sense

Additional info about word: CONSTRUE

1. To apply the rules of syntax to so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate. 2. To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand. Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSTRUE)

• Interpret
• Translate
• render
• construe
• explain
• expound
• expone
• represent
• declare
• understand
• elucidate
• decipher
• solve

Related words: (words related to CONSTRUE)

• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• EXPONENT
  A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power,
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• ELUCIDATE
  To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• SOLVEND
  A substance to be dissolved.
• DECLARER
  One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.
• SOLVER
  One who, or that which, solves.
• SOLVE
  A solution; an explanation. Shak.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• DECLAREDNESS
  The state of being declared.
• UNDERSTANDING
  1. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation. 2. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• DECLARE
  To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• PREDECLARE
  To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce. Milman.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• MISCONSTRUER
  One who misconstrues.
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.