interpret
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(verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to |
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Synonyms: construe |
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Related Words: allegorize, clarify, clear, clear up, confound, confuse, crystallize, draw out, educe, elicit, elucidate, enlighten, evoke, extract, illuminate, ke amiss, literalize, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, mistake, misunderstand, read, read between the lines, reinterpret, scan, shed light on, sort out, spiritualize, straighten out, take, understand |
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(verb) give an interpretation or explanation to |
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Related Words: comment, commentate, deconstruct, explain, explicate, gloss, misinterpret, re-explain, reinterpret |
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(verb) give an interpretation or rendition of |
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Synonyms: render |
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Related Words: do, execute, perform, sing |
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(verb) render into another language |
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Synonyms: translate |
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Related Words: Latinize, gloss, ingeminate, iterate, mistranslate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, retranslate |
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(verb) create an image or likeness of |
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Synonyms: represent |
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Related Words: animalize, capture, carnalize, contrast, conventionalize, depict, draw, graph, limn, map, mock up, model, paint, picture, portray, present, profile, re-create, sensualize, show, silhouette, stylize |
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(verb) make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" |
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Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
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Related Words: understand |
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