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S: (v) spiritualize, spiritualise (give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense)

S: (v) interpret, construe, see (make sense of; assign a meaning to) "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

S: (v) misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss (interpret in the wrong way) "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"
S: (v) read between the lines (read what is implied but not expressed on the surface)
S: (v) mythicize, mythicise (interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology) "mythicize the ancient stories"
S: (v) literalize, literalise (make literal) "literalize metaphors"
S: (v) spiritualize, spiritualise (give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense)
S: (v) reinterpret (assign a new or different meaning to)
S: (v) allegorize, allegorise (interpret as an allegory)
S: (v) take, read (interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression) "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"

S: (v) misread, misinterpret (interpret wrongly) "I misread Hamlet all my life!"

S: (v) read (interpret something that is written or printed) "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

S: (v) anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise (read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning)
S: (v) reread (read anew; read again) "He re-read her letters to him"
S: (v) dip into (read selectively; read only certain passages from a text)
S: (v) decipher, trace (read with difficulty) "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
S: (v) skim, skim over (read superficially)
S: (v) lipread, lip-read, speech-read (interpret by lipreading; of deaf people)

S: (v) read, scan (obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources) "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

S: (v) educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out (deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)) "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

S: (v) spiritualize, spiritualise (purify from the corrupting influences of the world) "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized"