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Definition: Puzzle Over |
Puzzle OverVerb1. Try to solve. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Language | Translations for "puzzle over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vras mendjen (Mull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاول أن يفهم, تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), إحتار (scruple), إرتبك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мисля (deliberate, figure, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lámat si hlavu s, hloubat nad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gruble (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | piekeren (rack one's brains), zich het hoofd breken (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | cerbumi (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | hugsa djúpt (meditate, rack one's brains, think to oneself), grunda (meditate, rack one's brains, think to oneself), brýggja høvur (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laisser perplexe (puzzle), essayer de résoudre, essayer de comprendre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | grübeln (brood, chew, cogitate, muse, pore, rack one's brains, ruminate, rumination, speculate, to muse, to speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töpreng valamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | velta fyrir sér (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 捻る (to puzzle over, to turnon or off, to twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひねる (to puzzle over, to turnon or off, to twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | gruble (rack one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uzzlepay overay esforçar‐sementalmente (rack one's brains). (various references) ломать голову (rack one's brains). (various references) uporno razmišljati o nečemu. (various references) estar perplejo por. (various references) grubbla (brood, cogitate, eat one's heart out, mull, muse, ponder, puzzle, rack one's brains, ruminate, worry), göra sig huvudbry. (various references) คิ"หนักเกี่ยวกับ (rack one's brains). (various references) kafa patlatmak (beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains, ponder, puzzle, puzzle one's brains, puzzle one's head, rack one's brains, rack one's brains over, swot), çözmeye çalışmak. (various references) морочити голову. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-p-r-u-v-z-z" | |
-3 letters: puzzler. | |
-4 letters: eloper, louver, louvre, oeuvre, plover, prevue, puzzle, velour, velure. | |
-5 letters: elope, elver, leper, lever, loper, loupe, lover, ouzel, ovule, poler, prole, prove, puler, puree, repel, revel, revue, rupee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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