| query | If you p_____ over something, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it.If you puzzle over something, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it. I stayed up nights, puzzling over epic Old English poems in a fog of incomprehension. |
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| word | puzzle |
| full-definition | verb If something puzzles you, you do not understand it and feel confused . My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety. His letter poses a number of puzzling questions. If you puzzle over something, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it. I stayed up nights, puzzling over epic Old English poems in a fog of incomprehension. noun A puzzle is a question, game, or toy which you have to think about carefully in order to answer it correctly or put it together properly. ...a word puzzle. You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand as a puzzle . Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists. She was a puzzle. |
| inflections | puzzlespuzzlingpuzzledpuzzling |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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