Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.
puzzle over — (something) to give a lot of attention and thought to something. I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message. Related vocabulary: tease out something … New idioms dictionary
puzzle over — index doubt (hesitate), ponder, reflect (ponder), speculate (conjecture) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
puzzle over — verb try to solve (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: ↑think, ↑cogitate, ↑cerebrate • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * ˈpuzzle ˌ … Useful english dictionary
puzzle over — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms puzzle over : present tense I/you/we/they puzzle over he/she/it puzzles over present participle puzzling over past tense puzzled over past participle puzzled over puzzle over someone/something to think hard… … English dictionary
puzzle over something — puzzle over (something) to give a lot of attention and thought to something. I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message. Related vocabulary: tease out something … New idioms dictionary
puzzle over something — ˈpuzzle over/about sth derived to think hard about sth in order to understand or explain it • Karen puzzled over the question all evening. Main entry: ↑puzzlederived … Useful english dictionary
puzzle over — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. think about, consider, debate; see think 1 … English dictionary for students
ˈpuzzle ˌover sb/sth — phrasal verb to think hard about something and try to understand it … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
puzzle — [puz′əl] vt. puzzled, puzzling [ME * poselen (inferred < pp. poselet), to bewilder, confuse < ?] to perplex; confuse; bewilder; nonplus vi. 1. to be perplexed, etc. 2. to exercise one s mind, as over the solution of a problem n. 1. the… … English World dictionary
Puzzle — Puz zle, v. i. 1. To be bewildered, or perplexed. [1913 Webster] A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
