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[ verb ] find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of

Examples

"did you get it?" "Did you get my meaning?" "He could not work the math problem"

Used in print

(Robert Wallace, "This Is the Way It Came About"...)

The average Congolese can do little more_than puzzle_out the meaning of `` la chatte '' and `` le chien '' and write his name .

(Life BR-C16. Saturday Review, 44:15 (April 15, 1961)...)

But slowly they take_over as Alain_Delon ( Life , Sept. 15 ) , playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy , casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going_to murder him , then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle_out how Delon expects to profit from the act .

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