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puzzle English

Meaning puzzle meaning

What does puzzle mean?
Definitions in simple English

puzzle Noun

— A puzzle is a game to try to put pieces together. I just have completed a puzzle with 1,000 pieces.

puzzle Verb

— If something puzzles somebody, it confuses that person This math problem puzzles me.

puzzle

— verb (= vex, stick, get, beat, bewilder) be a mystery or bewildering to This beats me! Got me--I don't know the answer! a vexing problem This question really stuck me — verb be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide We puzzled over her sudden departure — noun a game that tests your ingenuity — noun (= puzzler) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution he loved to solve chessmate puzzles that's a real puzzler

Synonyms puzzle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as puzzle?

puzzle English » English

riddle enigma perplex confuse problem bewilder mystery confound conundrum baffle mystify trouble dumbfound stupefy question perplexity jigsaw puzzle embarrass stun startle stagger puzzler poser nonplus disconcert bewilderment amaze vex teaser take aback stick quiz quandary pose mislead jigsaw get dismay astound appal alarm secret query mystifier like gravel flummox floor entangle distress

Topics puzzle topics

What do people use puzzle to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Confused
Language and thought Think Understand

Mysterious
Language and thought Communication Story

Riddle
Social behavior Social activity

Play, fun

Conjugation puzzle conjugation

How do you conjugate puzzle?

puzzle · verb

Examples puzzle examples

How do I use puzzle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom solved the puzzle after Mary gave him a few hints.
You could have solved this puzzle with a little more patience.
Have you worked the puzzle out?
I can't figure out how to solve the puzzle.
This puzzle has 500 pieces.
With a little more patience, you could have solved the puzzle.
Can you solve the puzzle?
They each have a piece of the puzzle.
Tom and Mary spent the weekend working on a jigsaw puzzle.
Can you guys solve the puzzle?
That's the solution to the puzzle.
I solved the puzzle.
Tom is doing a crossword puzzle.
It's a puzzle to me how you got through the locked door.
No one could solve the puzzle.
You'd be able to do the puzzle if only you had a little bit more patience.
That's a puzzle.
I just solved the puzzle.
I'm solving a puzzle.
Can you solve this puzzle?
It's a puzzle to me how such a stupid guy ever got through college.
Is this a puzzle?

Movie subtitles

Are we simply one small piece in the cosmicjigsaw puzzle or are we truly the only special beings in this vast universe?
I just thought I'd find some missing piece to the puzzle.
Hey, look, a jigsaw puzzle.
THOMPSON: Playing with a jigsaw puzzle.
I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. A missing piece.
By Jove, Georgie; you are a puzzle! - In what way, may I ask?
I didn't finish the crossword puzzle.
Will you please stop dawdling with that infernal puzzle?
Now you get on with your old puzzle and leave me in peace.
But they tell it to you all mixed up, like pieces of a puzzle that don't fit.
The problem of the analyst is to examine this puzzle and put the pieces together in the right place. And find out what the devil you are trying to say to yourself.
I believe it is called a monkey puzzle tree.
What have you done with me monkey puzzle tree?
Because I wanted a monkey puzzle tree in me garden!
What is it, son? It's a puzzle.
Playing with a jigsaw puzzle.
No. I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. A missing piece.
By Jove, Georgie; you are a puzzle!
Some people prefer to do a puzzle alone.
Sounds like a crossword puzzle.
If our positions were reversed I shouldn't think of you sending to your death. Lacking a few stray pieces of the puzzle.
The main pattern on the puzzle seems to be forming but the pieces don't fit in.
The pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place.
It means that the final piece of the puzzle is falling into place.
Oh you can have your puzzle I've got the murderer.
After a while, a wife gets to be a sort of a solved crossword puzzle.
I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
Tell me, kate, Just where does pat fit into this jigsaw puzzle?
You puzzle me, Mr. Steele.
That would puzzle them, wouldn't it.
But you puzzle me also.
You puzzle me even more.
And can you solve.a puzzle for me?
Aha, But first, resolve the puzzle!
I don't think I've ever known any happening to puzzle. so many people in so many ways. and I can help so few of them.
Excuse me, please, but Rhoda has tired of her puzzle. finished her dinner, and now she wants a book.
And I'm busy with my puzzle.

News and current affairs

However tempting it may be to solve the puzzle by drawing new borders or establishing new entities, this conundrum cannot be resolved in terms of sovereignty.
A great puzzle in today's world economy is the continued low level of long-term real interest rates in the United States.
The puzzle is not only that long-term rates are too low when viewed in the international context, but also that they are too low when viewed in America's domestic context.
When we macroeconomists talk to our friends on Wall Street, we find that they don't view this as a puzzle at all.
The puzzle of Berlusconi's survival reflects a wider European conundrum.
Traditional explanations for the high savings rate (lack of a social safety net, limited public services, aging of the population, underdevelopment of consumer finance, etc.) are only part of the puzzle.
It is a puzzle here.
Even so, the explosion of exports coming out of low-wage regions like China and India is at least a piece of the puzzle.
The issue is Kosovo's status - the last unresolved piece of the bloodstained Balkans puzzle.
While that might enhance the EU's popularity in the periphery, it could increase resistance to EU membership in Germany - a country that, despite its waning economic strength, remains an important piece of the integration puzzle.
Economists puzzle over why.
Intellectually, this is a great puzzle: we believe in market forces, and in the benefits of trade, specialization, and the international division of labor.
But let's stop pretending that this is a poker game, rather than a scientific and technological puzzle of the highest order.
But there is a puzzle: it is difficult to detect the benefits of this innovation in GDP statistics.
This fits with yet another curious piece of the Chinese puzzle.
The puzzle, though, is that this trend has played out in a very gradual and predictable way, whereas the decline in interest rates has been more rapid and somewhat unexpected (certainly by central banks).
CAMBRIDGE - The low rate of inflation in the United States is a puzzle, especially to economists who focus on the relationship between inflation and changes in the monetary base.
That brings us back to the apparent puzzle of low inflation.
This proposal may puzzle some, but the logic is straightforward and irrefutable.

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