- 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.
- the simple past tense and past participle of construe.
