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Puzzle Out

Definition: Puzzle Out

Puzzle Out

Verb

1. Find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Puzzle Out

Synonyms: figure out (v), lick (v), solve (v), work (v), work out (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Puzzle Out

Language Translations for "puzzle out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zgjidh një problem, zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), zbërthej (analyse, analyze, break down, crack, decompose, demount, diffract, disarticulate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismount, disperse, dissolve, Plumb, pull apart, resolve, take to pieces, unbuckle, unbutton, undo, unfasten, unlock, unnail). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏وضح (accentuate, clarify, clear up, define, elucidate, explain, illuminate, illustrate, light, lighten, ravel out, represent, spell, state), ‏وجد (ecstasy, ecstatic, find, get it, hit, locate, manage, passion, rhapsody, trance), ‏جلا (be evacuated, evacuate, pan, polish, rub, scour, scrub, shine, wash), ‏شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, dissect, elucidate, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, represent, slice, sort out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разчитам (decipher, depend, lean, pick out, read, read off, rely), разгадавам (make out, read, study, unpuzzle, unriddle, unthread), мъча се да разгадая. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyluštit (do), vyřešit (crack, figure out, resolve, settle, solve, straighten, unscramble), rozluštit (crack, decipher, find out, solve, undo, unravel, unriddle). (various references)

   

French

  

trouver, résoudre, découvrir, déchiffrer, comprendre, élucider, éclaircir. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεδιαλύνω (sort out, thrash out, untwine, untwist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kibogoz (disembroil, to disentangle, to puzzle out, to ravel, to ravel out, to solve, to unknot, to unravel, to untangle, unravel, untangle). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feaysley (dispensation, ease, emancipation, extricate, extrication, free, guess, key, liberate, loosen, looseness, ransom, release, relief, relieve, solution, solve, unbutton, uncouple, undo, unfix). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uzzlepay outay

   

Russian 

  

разобраться. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odgonetnuti (puzzle, unriddle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descifrar (break, break a code, decipher, decode, decrypt, figure out, make out, read, unravel, unscramble). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fundera ut (figure out). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เข้าใจ (conceive, dig, digest, fathom, get, make, see, seize, suss, take). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bulmacayı çözmek, çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розгадувати (decipher, unravel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Puzzle Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-t-u-u-z-z"

-3 letters: puzzle, touzle, tupelo.

-4 letters: letup, loupe, ouzel, plotz, poult, zlote.

-5 letters: lept, lope, loup, lout, lute, lutz, pelt, plot, poet, pole, pout, pule, putz, tole, tolu, tope, tule.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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