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piece together

piece together verb: to physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.

Verb

piece together (third-person singular simple present pieces together, present participle piecing together, simple past and past participle pieced together)

  1. To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
    • The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
    • It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase.
  2. (figuratively) To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
    • The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.
    • Arsenal have been piecing their season back together after a poor start and the manner of this win will provide added reserves of confidence and self-belief.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport

piece together meaning in Kannada and Persian

piece together in Kannada

ಅಂಟಿಸು

piece together in Persian

to physically assemble from fragments or pieces
سر هم کردن sar-e ham kardan

Forms of piece together

third-person singular presentpieces together
present participlepiecing together
past participlepieced together
pastpieced together

Questions about piece together

What does piece together mean?
Piece together means to physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
What is piece together in Kannada?
Piece together in Kannada is ಅಂಟಿಸು. See Piece together meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is piece together?
Piece together is a verb.
What is the past tense of piece together?
The past tense of piece together is pieced together.

Words near piece together in the dictionary

  1. piece rates
  2. piece system
  3. piece table
  4. piece tables
  5. piece to camera
  6. piece together
  7. piece up
  8. piece work
  9. piece worker
  10. piece workers
  11. piece-bag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piece together (page history and authors); piece together (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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