Definition of "construes" [construes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of construe. (verb)

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• "Not to worry, the Government says: The Executive Branch construes §48 to reach only “extreme” cruelty, and it “neither has brought nor will bring a prosecution for anything less,” The Government hits this theme hard, invoking its prosecutorial discretion several times."
• "To argue that “activist government” is responsible for the abuse of civil rights (by institutionalizing it) is a gross misrepresentation of history which misplaces the cause of the Jim Crow laws, and erroneously construes the relationship between a representative government and its constituents."
• "No matter how much the public construes it otherwise (abetted, admittedly, by the exhibition's own wall labels), the Eggleston retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum (through January 16) documents not the contemporary American south but contemporary approaches to framing and recording perception and to analyzing - perhaps neutralizing, perhaps enhancing - the conditions of modern life."