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pieced out

pieced out is the simple past and past participle of piece out.

Meaning of piece out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To increase or complete by adding one or more pieces.
    • She pieced out a meal for three from what was in the cupboard.
  2. (transitive) To lay out or present possible components of a whole.
    • He pieced out what he knew from the witnesses.

Questions about pieced out

What is pieced out the simple past and past participle of?
Pieced out is the simple past and past participle of piece out.

Words near pieced out in the dictionary

  1. piece-work
  2. piece-worker
  3. piece-workers
  4. pieceable
  5. pieced
  6. pieced out
  7. pieced together
  8. pieced up
  9. piecegoods
  10. pieceless
  11. piecemeal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pieced out (page history and authors); piece out (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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