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construed

[ kuhn-strood ]

adjective

  1. interpreted or understood:

    Degrees from these “diploma mills” are often awarded based on vaguely construed life experience.

  2. arrived at by inference or interpretation:

    Public interest must necessarily overlap with a correctly construed definition of “national interest.”

  3. arranged or combined syntactically:

    Her soothing tones and delicate, thoughtfully construed statements only burrowed further and more painfully into his heart.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of construe ( def ).
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  • un·con·strued adjective
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