verb trans
to interpret (words, actions, evidence, etc) in a certain way
She had evidently construed my remarks as criticism
to analyse the syntax of or parse (a sentence or sentence part)
to translate (a passage, e.g. of Latin or Greek) by parsing it step by step
to analyse grammatically a sentence or passage for translation
construable adj
construal noun
[from Latin construere to construct or (later) construe: see construct1]