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puzzled out

puzzled out is the simple past and past participle of puzzle out.

Meaning of puzzle out

Verb

puzzle out (third-person singular simple present puzzles out, present participle puzzling out, simple past and past participle puzzled out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
    • […] but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

Questions about puzzled out

What is puzzled out the simple past and past participle of?
Puzzled out is the simple past and past participle of puzzle out.

Words near puzzled out in the dictionary

  1. puzzleation
  2. puzzleations
  3. puzzlebox
  4. puzzleboxes
  5. puzzled
  6. puzzled out
  7. puzzled over
  8. puzzled through
  9. puzzledly
  10. puzzledness
  11. puzzledom

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