Puzzle over
Puzzle over verb - Try to solve.
Reason and puzzle over are semantically related. in think about seriously topic. In some cases you can use "Reason" instead a verb "Puzzle over".
Reason
Reason verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Puzzle over and reason are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Puzzle over" instead a verb "Reason".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- mind and puzzle over
- mind and reason
- purpose and puzzle over
- purpose and reason
- consider and puzzle over
- consider and reason
- think and puzzle over
- think and reason
- contemplate and puzzle over
- contemplate and reason
- cogitate and puzzle over
- cogitate and reason
- figure and puzzle over
- figure and reason
Both terms in one sentence
- In Narc, two detectives puzzle over the shooting death of a gang-banger until they reason out that he had tried to use his own shotgun as a bong and blew his face off.
Source: Improbable Use of a Weapon - Referenced by...: In Knight's Fee (published two years later), the medieval inhabitants of the same village on the Hill of Gathering puzzle over an ancient flint hand-ax, evidently made for a left-handed man or, thinks the protagonist for no reason at all, a one-handed one.
Source: Literature / Warrior Scarlet
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