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  • puzzle over — (something) to give a lot of attention and thought to something. I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message. Related vocabulary: tease out something …   New idioms dictionary

  • puzzle over — index doubt (hesitate), ponder, reflect (ponder), speculate (conjecture) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • puzzle over — verb try to solve (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: ↑think, ↑cogitate, ↑cerebrate • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * ˈpuzzle ˌ …   Useful english dictionary

  • puzzle over — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms puzzle over : present tense I/you/we/they puzzle over he/she/it puzzles over present participle puzzling over past tense puzzled over past participle puzzled over puzzle over someone/something to think hard… …   English dictionary

  • puzzle over something — puzzle over (something) to give a lot of attention and thought to something. I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message. Related vocabulary: tease out something …   New idioms dictionary

  • puzzle over something — ˈpuzzle over/about sth derived to think hard about sth in order to understand or explain it • Karen puzzled over the question all evening. Main entry: ↑puzzlederived …   Useful english dictionary

  • puzzle over — Synonyms and related words: agonize over, apply the mind, be at sea, be uncertain, beat about, doubt, feel unsure, flounder, grope, hammer at, hammer away at, puzzle, question, stew over, think hard, thrash about, wonder, wonder whether …   Moby Thesaurus

  • puzzle over — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. think about, consider, debate; see think 1 …   English dictionary for students

  • ˈpuzzle ˌover sb/sth — phrasal verb to think hard about something and try to understand it …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • puzzle — [puz′əl] vt. puzzled, puzzling [ME * poselen (inferred < pp. poselet), to bewilder, confuse < ?] to perplex; confuse; bewilder; nonplus vi. 1. to be perplexed, etc. 2. to exercise one s mind, as over the solution of a problem n. 1. the… …   English World dictionary

  • Puzzle — Puz zle, v. i. 1. To be bewildered, or perplexed. [1913 Webster] A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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