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View synonyms for construed
construed
[ kuhn-strood ]
adjective
- interpreted or understood:
Degrees from these “diploma mills” are often awarded based on vaguely construed life experience.
- arrived at by inference or interpretation:
Public interest must necessarily overlap with a correctly construed definition of “national interest.”
- arranged or combined syntactically:
Her soothing tones and delicate, thoughtfully construed statements only burrowed further and more painfully into his heart.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of construe ( def ).
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- un·con·strued adjective
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Word History and Origins
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