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puzzled over

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

Meaning of puzzle over

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To think intensely and deeply about a confusing problem, situation, or question in an effort to understand it or to find a solution.

Questions about puzzled over

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

Words near puzzled over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puzzled over (page history and authors); puzzle over (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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