English

Verb

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

1. To figure out; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
   • 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     […] 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.

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