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Interpret

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

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Contextual alternative 1

Explain 88% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

ad editorial 2026 08 academic 54% interchangeable less formal

Use when explanation requires judgement about meaning rather than simply description.

Verb group 12

Consider 84% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Consider 84% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Reckon 84% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Reckon 84% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regard 84% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Regard 84% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Translate 84% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Translate 84% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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View 84% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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View 84% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Manner of action 44

Allegorize 76% connected

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Animalize 76% connected

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Annotate 76% connected

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

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Capture 76% connected

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Carnalize 76% connected

To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Chart 76% connected

A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historica…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Commentate 76% connected

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conventionalize 76% connected

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Depict 76% connected

Depicted.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Educe 76% connected

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Gloss 76% connected

Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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graph 76% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Latinize 76% connected

To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Limn 76% connected

To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.

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Literalize 76% connected

To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scriptur…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Map 76% connected

A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misapprehend 76% connected

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misconceive 76% connected

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misconstrue 76% connected

To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misinterpret 76% connected

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mistranslate 76% connected

To translate erroneously.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misunderstand 76% connected

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Moralize 76% connected

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Paint 76% connected

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Picture 76% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Portray 76% connected

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Profile 76% connected

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Retranslate 76% connected

To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scan 76% connected

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Sensualize 76% connected

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Silhouette 76% connected

A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

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Sing 76% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Spiritualize 76% connected

To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spir…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Broader term 13

Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Explain 76% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Explicate 76% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ingeminate 76% connected

Redoubled; repeated.

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Iterate 76% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Re-create 76% connected

To create or form anew.

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Recreate 76% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reiterate 76% connected

To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

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Repeat 76% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Restate 76% connected

To state anew.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Retell 76% connected

To tell again.

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Understand 76% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Derivationally related 12

Interpretation 74% connected

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpretation 74% connected

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpretative 74% connected

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpretative 74% connected

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpreter 74% connected

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Interpreter 74% connected

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rendition 74% connected

The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rendition 74% connected

The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Representation 74% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Representation 74% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Construe 92% connected

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to ex…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Read 92% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rede 92% connected

To advise or counsel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Represent 92% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Translate 92% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Understand 92% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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