puzzle out en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
[…] but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| puzzling out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| puzzles out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| puzzled out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| puzzled out | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Synonyms
get to the bottom of · resolve · decipher · think out · ravel · work out · reason out · unsolve · unravel · tease out · iron out · iron out · riddle · puzzle out · upsolve · Any from Thesaurus:untangle · work out · meliorate · sleuth · solve · absolve · think out · unriddle · unpuzzle
Translations (2)
pl wywnioskować (to solve a puzzling problem) · sh odgonétnuti (to solve a puzzling problem)