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pieced together

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

Meaning of piece together

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.
  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.

Questions about pieced together

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

Words near pieced together in the dictionary

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

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