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construes
vb. (en-third-person singular of: construe)
Usage examples of "construes".
He may see the image of a friend dear to him under conditions which he construes as very peculiar, when only shortly before he has passed him in the street or seen his photograph somewhere.
The steps that looked so unwieldy when carried out by a computer seem straight forward—easy, even—now that he construes them as manipulations of a deck of cards.
In other exchanges, he indicated that he construes some words narrowly.