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puzzling out

puzzling out is the present participle and gerund 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 puzzling out

What is puzzling out the present participle and gerund of?
Puzzling out is the present participle and gerund of puzzle out.

Words near puzzling out in the dictionary

  1. puzzleth
  2. puzzlewit
  3. puzzlewits
  4. puzzley
  5. puzzling
  6. puzzling out
  7. puzzling over
  8. puzzling through
  9. puzzlingly
  10. puzzlingness
  11. puzzlings

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