Construing

The carpenter was construing a bookshelf for the library.

I am construing from your silence that you don't want to go out.

The team was construing the rules to avoid any penalty.

The audience was construing the speaker's message in different ways.

He is construing her words as a challenge to his authority.

The carpenter is skilled in construing furniture out of wood.

Her construing of his words led to a misunderstanding.

I had trouble construing the instructions for assembling the furniture.