"puzzle out" meaning in English

See puzzle out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: puzzles out [present, singular, third-person], puzzling out [participle, present], puzzled out [participle, past], puzzled out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} puzzle out (third-person singular simple present puzzles out, present participle puzzling out, simple past and past participle puzzled out)
  1. (transitive) To figure out; to discover or find a solution to. Tags: transitive Translations (to solve a puzzling problem): odgonétnuti (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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