construe
verb (used with object)
were construing
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past progressiveof construe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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When other young instructors were construing Tennyson and Browning, Cross discovered a taste for the directness and raciness of Chaucer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boys were construing the portion of Virgil which had been set them overnight.
From Soldiers of the Queen by Harold Avery
