reconstrue

From re- +‎ construe.

reconstrue (third-person singular simple present reconstrues, present participle reconstruing, simple past and past participle reconstrued)

1. To construe something again, or in a new way
   • 2002, Conceivability and Possibility‎, →ISBN, page 241:

     Kripke is an essentialist, and so he is motivated to do things (such as reconstruing some modal intuitions) that are motivated by essentialism.

   • 2003, Ray Woolfe, Handbook of Counselling Psychology‎, →ISBN, page 242:

     Experience of invalidation may lead to reconstruing, which may take various forms.

• reconstruct

• neurocrest, recounters