puzzle
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1. puzzle - Noun
2. puzzle - Verb
Meaning
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
To make intricate; to entangle.
To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
To be bewildered, or perplexed.
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
It would puzzle even Apollo to understand it.
Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better.