Construe is valid Scrabble Word

Is construe a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is construe valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for CONSTRUE in dictionary:

VERB:

to analyse the grammatical construction of (a sentence)
interpret (a word or action) in a particular way
analyse the syntax of (a text, sentence, or word)
translate (a passage or author) word for word, typically aloud
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.
To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.
make sense of; assign a meaning to
interpret

NOUN:

something that is construed, such as a piece of translation

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to interpret

Words related to CONSTRUE

conster9 constered12 consters10 construable15 construed12 construer11 construers12 construes11 construing13 interpret11

Words that contain CONSTRUE

construed12 construer11 construes11 construers12 misconstrue15 misconstrued17 misconstrues16

How to use CONSTRUE in a sentence

It was at the close of the forenoon school, and Pen had been unnoticed all the previous part of the morning till now, when the Doctor put him on to construe in a Greek play.
When he found the place in his book and began to construe, he floundered hopelessly.
The Pope usurpeth and taketh to himself the power to expound and to construe the Scriptures according to his pleasure.
The absence of any tone or word that even one so devoted as I could construe to her advantage was puzzling in the extreme.
I construe it myself as I feel it, but I do not wish to urge upon any one else more than their feelings dictate as to what they should feel about the obligation.
This the tramps seemed to construe as a favorable sign.
Yet the Constitution is clear and unequivocal in its terms, and no Supreme Court can indefinitely continue to construe it as meaning anything but what it says.
To construe things is to present them as they are in God.
We referred to our contentment in our new home, and avoided any words which they might construe as a wish to return.
Her presuming to write to him, when she did not submit to his dictation, he chose to construe as a fresh insult to himself.

There is a fine true story of a famous head-master, who disliked a weakling, putting on a stupid, shy, and ungainly boy to construe, and making deliberate fun of him.
He begged them not to construe his remarks into self-praise, but to understand them as intending to simply show his unselfish interest in the prosperity of the Monastery.
But he becomes justly ridiculous if, when no longer able to construe a plain sentence, he affects to sit in judgment on the most delicate questions of style and metre.
Who has the right to construe and expound the laws? Of course the Courts of the Nation.
Next, the government at Washington had sent to construe and administer their laws men who were aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel.
President Monroe determined to construe it as broadly as possible in aid of the project of colonization.
For on the ground neither of reason nor of Scripture can we construe any other purpose of the Lord.
Paul, the inspired Apostle, in the very first century of the Christian era, instructed Titus to construe and administer the law committed to his charge.
Yet now she owned herself at fault, unable to construe the manner of this action or assign a particular motive with which it was in harmony.
The Transvaal Government now construe the omission of the Preamble to the 1881 Convention as the result of an agreement to abolish the suzerainty.
It would be something better than a kingdom if one could rightly construe their song.
The boys learn all their lessons, and do their exercises, in their own rooms, going into school to say or construe them.
There is always a tendency to construe too literally.
The industrious boy at school is rather disliked than otherwise, while the brilliant boy who can construe his lesson without learning it is envied.
The cost of the benefit, therefore, depends largely upon the strictness with which the officials construe the rules.
He knew that Sung Ki would construe it as solely for him.
He took pains to conceal the depth of his own affliction, and to avoid whatever she might construe as reproach.
She received your letter very graciously, asked leave to retire a few moments, and returned with a smile of complacency on her brow, which I construe favorably to you.
Attack their honor, that is, their chastity, and they construe it to be the effect of excessive love, which hurries you a little beyond the bounds of prudence.
It never once occurred to me that my Angelina might possibly find it difficult to construe Horace.
I trust the casual reader will not construe anything in these pages into a boastful desire to spread myself in too large letters in print.
To construe this river requires a man who can build dykes against the overflow, who is a naturalist, a geologist, a humanitarian, a diver and a strong swimmer.
It is easy enough to say that one believes in reform and good citizenship, for one can construe that later to suit circumstances.
Like a good lawyer, Douglas seemed to feel himself in duty bound to spar for every technical advantage, and to construe the law, wherever possible, in favor of his client.
Nothing can be more dangerous than a compact between England and Ireland which the contracting parties construe from the very beginning in different senses.

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