Usually means: Interpret or understand meaning of.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word construe:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. construe: Merriam-Webster
  2. construe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. construe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. construe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. construe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Construe, construe: Wordnik
  7. construe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. construe: Wiktionary
  9. construe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. construe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. construe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Construe, construe: Dictionary.com
  13. construe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. construe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Construe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Construe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. construe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. construe: Rhymezone
  19. Construe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. construe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. construe: FreeDictionary.org
  22. construe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. construe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Construe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. construe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. construe: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. construe: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. construe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. construe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. construe: Idioms

(Note: See construable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A translation.
noun:  An interpretation.
verb:  (transitive) To understand (something) as meaning, to take to mean.
verb:  (transitive) To interpret (something) to another or publicly, explain the meaning of (something, usually language).
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.
verb:  (grammar, ergative) To admit of grammatical analysis.
verb:  (transitive) To translate.
verb:  To infer.
verb:  (obsolete) To explain.

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