Crossword-Solution: CONSTRUE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Construe | 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. |
| Construe | v. t. | To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONSTRUE | anagram | COUNTERS, RECOUNTS, TROUNCES |
We have 22 clues for the answer “CONSTRUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Understand in a particular way | 1 answer |
| Interpret in a particular way | 1 answer |
| Explain the sense | 1 answer |
| COMBINE words grammatically | 1 answer |
| Read between the lines | 7 answers |
| parse | 7 answers |
| Paraphrase | 8 answers |
| Translate | 12 answers |
| explicate | 13 answers |
| Read ___ | 22 answers |
| Decipher | 22 answers |
| expound | 30 answers |
| Analyze | 31 answers |
| Infer | 31 answers |
| Interpret | 35 answers |
| MAKE plain | 44 answers |
| make clear | 50 answers |
| decode | 52 answers |
| Verify | 52 answers |
| explain | 57 answers |
| illuminate | 65 answers |
| Establish | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONSTRUE (5)
All men have their enemies, good Sir Sluggard; and there be those malignant enough to construe the hospitable refreshment which I have been offering to you, a weary traveller, for the matter of three short hours, into sheer drunkenness and debauchery, vices alike alien to my profession and my disposition.” “Base calumniators!” replied the knight; “I would I had the chastising of them.
The discovery had not been altogether unexpected, for throughout his anxiety of the last few days since the night in the churchyard, he had been inclined to construe the uncertainty unfavourably for himself.
Fortunat construe this as an acknowledgment of the importance of his services and his client’s urgent need? Would he not become more exacting, more exorbitant in his demands? If the marquis could have made his escape unheard, he would, no doubt, have done so; but this was out of the question.
Rather than risk an answer which might be wrong and excite a storm of abuse from the master, he would sit stupidly silent, and when it came towards his turn to stand up and construe he grew sick and white with apprehension.
And in this school I began to construe the Latin language, which I had never done before, notwithstanding my long and diligent study of Lilly, which illustrious grammar was not used at Edinburgh, nor indeed known.
Quotes with CONSTRUE (3)
The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there. Hence, by appealing to an eternal source for bodies, their art, language, sexual and political union, one is not ethereally taking leave of their density. On the contrary, one is i…
People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an "empty box". Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( "Everybody his story" )
Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1975–2023).