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Puzzle   /pˈəzəl/   Listen
noun
puzzle  n.  
1.
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
2.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.


verb
puzzle  v. t.  (past & past part. puzzled; pres. part. puzzling)  
1.
To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus. "A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others." "He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders."
2.
To make intricate; to entangle. "They disentangle from the puzzled skein." "The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error."
3.
To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
Synonyms: To embarrass; perplex; confuse; bewilder; confound. See Embarrass.


Puzzle  v. i.  
1.
To be bewildered, or perplexed. "A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing."
2.
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.





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"Puzzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed up to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think "they have seen him before." Every one speculateth upon his condition; and the most part take him to be a tide-waiter. He calleth you by your Christian name, to imply that his other is the ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
... was not hard to pick up the lost trail. But Binhart's movements, after leaving that port, became a puzzle to the man who had begun to pride himself on growing into knowledge of his adversary's inmost nature. For once Blake found himself uncertain as to the other's intentions. The fugitive now seemed possessed with an idea ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... home to realize how little our men knew of what was happening. The majority of them never saw the newspapers, and of course the monotony of our life and the apparent hopelessness of making any great advance was a puzzle to them. I never failed to take the question seriously and give them, as far as I was able, a general idea of the aspect of the war on the various fronts. In order to be able to do this I read "The Times" daily with great care. It was (p. 181) really the only paper that one could depend on, and its ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... time to clean up the matter. From what I know of Sally May, I cannot believe that she has written them. Don't tell me anything more about it. I leave it to you; please do your best to get them stopped." And she left them to solve the puzzle. ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett
... to puzzle into the right thing, 'sometimes things are sent to punish us, and then we ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge


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