read into

/ riːd /

verb

1. tr, preposition to discern in or infer from a statement (meanings not intended by the speaker or writer)

Idioms and Phrases

Find an additional hidden or unintended meaning in something that is said or written, as in What I read into that speech on foreign policy is that the Vice President plans to run for President . [Late 1800s]

Related Words

• ascertain
• assume
• construe
• deduce
• derive
• figure out
• glean
• guess
• interpret
• presume
• presuppose
• reckon
• speculate
• surmise