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Puzzle out   /pˈəzəl aʊt/   Listen
Puzzle out

verb
1.
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.  Synonyms: figure out, lick, solve, work, work out.  "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 meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"






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"Puzzle out" Quotes from Famous Books



... crying over the paper that Elbridge Newton had pushed under the door that morning. It was limp from the nervous clutch and tremor of her hands, and wet with her tears; but she kept reading her father's letter in it, and trying to puzzle out of it some hope or help. "He must be crazy, he must be crazy," she moaned, more to herself than to Suzette, who sat rigidly and silently by. "He couldn't have been so cruel, if he had been in his right mind; he couldn't! He was always so good to us, and so thoughtful; ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells



Words linked to "Puzzle out" :   break, riddle, infer, understand, strike, reason, resolve, answer, work, solve, work out, figure out, guess



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