If you interpret something or make sense of it, you construe its meaning. If the new girl in your class asks to sit with you at lunch, you could construe that she wants to be friends. You can never have too many friends!
To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.
Verb
make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
v. t.
To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or
clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of,
or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret;
to translate.
v. t.
To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or
intention of; to interpret; to understand.
Construe
Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies.
And to be dull was construed to be good.
To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.
Usage Examples
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
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Other Usage ExamplesOur souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.