puzzle out

English

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.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     […] but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there.

Translations

to solve a puzzling problem

• Serbo-Croatian: odgonétnuti (sh)