puzzle out

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puzzle out

verb puzzles out · puzzling out · puzzled out

  1. 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.

    Similar: iron out, think out, work out, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, meliorate, cure, puzzle out, ravel, reason out, resolve

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@misc{puzzle_out_2026,
  title = {puzzle out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/puzzle%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}