puzzle out

English

Verb

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

(transitive) To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], 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.

Translations

to solve a puzzling problem

Serbo-Croatian: odgonétnuti (sh)

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