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Definition

to interpret (understand) something as have a specific meaning

The executive branch does not construe the provision as requiring it to share additional information with Congress.

construe = interpret

Juries can construe evidence to mean something it does not.

construe = interpret

We need someone who will not be suspected of having construed the contract in their favor.
It was impossible to know what action might later be construed as a crime.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

construed = understood something to have a specific meaning

Now let me see if I can construe it:
William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew

construe = understand something to have a specific meaning

Gregor would sometimes catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be construed as friendly.
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

construed = interpreted

But men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar

construe = understand something to have a specific meaning

I can construe the action of her familiar style
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor

construe = interpret (understand the implications of)

How do we construe "infinity"? If you have to get half way to a destination an infinite number of times prior to reaching it, and if infinity never ends, then what understanding of "infinity" permits you to reach any destination?
Article IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
There's an old story has the same refrain; Who bade them so construe it?
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Rosalie looking down at the table, and I realized that my words could be construed in two ways.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
CROMWELL Is that what the world in fact construes from it?
Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
To cozen him of all, were but a cheat Well placed; no man would construe it a sin: Let his sport pay for it, this is call'd the Fox-trap.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
Your conscience will tell you, sir, whether I construe it well or not.'
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
Is that correctly construed?
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Anything that I could construe as relevant to the day when they would leave the island had a place in the classroom.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Construe my speeches better, if you may.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
It was in this way that she had construed his answer when they parted all that time ago.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Nor can there be strict rules for how the judges will construe the offenses.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2

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