think out en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To devise or solve by a process of thought.
I wanted to try and think out how it was that rational or even half-rational men could ever have learned to wear armor, considering its inconveniences; and how they had managed to keep up such a fashion for generations when it was plain that what I had suffered to-day they had had to suffer all the days of their lives.
1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| thought out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| thought out | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| thinks out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| thinking out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Synonyms
unriddle · ravel · tease out · unsolve · reason out · absolve · riddle · reason out · sleuth · puzzle out · resolve · think out · solve · iron out · work out · upsolve · decipher · meliorate · unravel · decipher · get to the bottom of · puzzle out · unpuzzle · Any from Thesaurus:untangle