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puzzle out — (something) to study something in order to understand it. The reader shouldn t have to puzzle out what the writer means … New idioms dictionary
puzzle out — verb find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of (Freq. 2) did you solve the problem? Work out your problems with the boss this unpleasant situation isn t going to work itself out did you get it? Did you get my… … Useful english dictionary
puzzle out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms puzzle out : present tense I/you/we/they puzzle out he/she/it puzzles out present participle puzzling out past tense puzzled out past participle puzzled out to solve a confusing or complicated problem by… … English dictionary
puzzle out — PHRASAL VERB If you puzzle out a problem, you find the answer to it by thinking hard about it. [V P wh] He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next... [V P n (not pron)] Nosenko puzzled out Kutya s surname... [V n P] The… … English dictionary
puzzle out something — puzzle out (something) to study something in order to understand it. The reader shouldn t have to puzzle out what the writer means … New idioms dictionary
puzzle out — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. figure out, work out, decipher; see solve . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To find the key to (a code, for example): break, crack, decipher, decrypt. See KNOWLEDGE. II verb See puzzle … English dictionary for students
puzzle out — verb To figure out; to discover or find a solution; to deduce … Wiktionary
puzzle something out — ˌpuzzle sthˈout derived to find the answer to a difficult or confusing problem by thinking carefully Syn: ↑work out • puzzle something out why, what, etc… He was trying to puzzle out why he had been brought to the house. Main entry: ↑puzzle … Useful english dictionary
puzzle — puz zle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {puzzled} (p[u^]z z ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {puzzling} (p[u^]z zl[i^]ng).] 1. To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus. [1913 Webster] A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
puzzle — [puz′əl] vt. puzzled, puzzling [ME * poselen (inferred < pp. poselet), to bewilder, confuse < ?] to perplex; confuse; bewilder; nonplus vi. 1. to be perplexed, etc. 2. to exercise one s mind, as over the solution of a problem n. 1. the… … English World dictionary
