| Meaning | make sense of; assign a meaning / meaning to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | Sam and Sue interpret the movie; They won't interpret the story |
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| Example | "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
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| Synonyms | construe, see |
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| Narrower | allegorize, allegorise | interpret as an allegory |
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| educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out | deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning / meaning) |
| literalize, literalise | make literal |
| misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss | interpret in the wrong way |
| mythicize, mythicise | interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology |
| read | interpret something that is written or printed |
| read, scan | Obtain data from magnetic tapes |
| read between the lines | read what is implied but not expressed on the surface |
| reinterpret | Assign a new or different meaning / meaning to |
| spiritualize, spiritualise | Give a spiritual meaning / meaning to |
| take, read | interpret something in a certain way |
| Broader | understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning / meaning of |
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| Similar to | see, consider, reckon, view, regard | deem to be |
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| Spanish | construir, entender, interpretar, ver |
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| Catalan | construir, interpretar |
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| Nouns | interpretation | an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious |
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| interpretation | a mental representation of the meaning or significance / significance of something |
| interpretation | an explanation that results from interpreting something |
