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Definition
to interpret (understand) something as have a specific meaning
- One day toward the end of that time, as he continued to cough up blood and grew worrisomely feeble, there gathered around him what he construed as a deathwatch: his wife, Dr. Hattori, the hospital matron, several nurses.Five — The Aftermath (25% in)
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