Definition:
- [verb] make sense of; assign a meaning to; “What message do you see in this letter?”; “How do you interpret his behavior?”
Synonyms:construe,see - [verb] give an interpretation or explanation to
- [verb] give an interpretation or rendition of; “The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully”
Synonyms:render - [verb] create an image or likeness of; “The painter represented his wife as a young girl”
Synonyms:represent - [verb] restate (words) from one language into another language; “I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.”; “Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?”; “She rendered the French poem into English”; “He translates for the U.N.”
Synonyms:translate,render - [verb] make sense of a language; “She understands French”; “Can you read Greek?”
Synonyms:understand,read,translate
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss
- read between the lines
- mythicize, mythicise
- literalize, literalise
- spiritualize, spiritualise
- reinterpret
- allegorize, allegorise
- take, read
- read
- read, scan
- educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out
- moralize, moralise
- deconstruct
- reinterpret, re-explain
- commentate
- misinterpret
- gloss, comment, annotate
- commentate
- sing
- sensualize, carnalize
- silhouette
- animalize, animalise
- profile
- paint
- capture
- picture, depict, render, show
- stylize, stylise, conventionalize
- map
- portray, depict, limn
- portray, present
- draw
- model, mock up
- graph, chart
- retranslate
- mistranslate
- gloss
- latinize
