puzzle
suomi-englanti sanakirjapuzzle englannista suomeksi
arvoitus, pulma, pähkinä
askarruttaa, kummastuttaa
palapeli
Verbi
Substantiivi
puzzle englanniksi
To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Sanderson Sermons)
(RQ:More Divine Dialogues)
(RQ:Spectator)
(RQ:Defoe New Voyage)
(RQ:Berkeley Alciphron)
(RQ:Sterne Tristram Shandy)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
(RQ:Cooper Mercedes)
(RQ:Emerson Society and Solitude) like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum, who reads the context with emphasis.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Graves Claudius)
To use (one's brain or mind) to try to out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)
(RQ:Centlivre Artifice)
(RQ:Cumberland Posthumous Works) I can't deny the mark upon his cheek, though I may puzzle the question between right and left. He may, or he may not, be Demetrius: (..)
(RQ:Twain Roughing It)
(RQ:Joyce Dubliners)
To (intentionally) make (something) complicated or confused, and so difficult to resolve or understand; to confuse, to complicate.
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Clarendon History)
(RQ:Addison Cato)
(RQ:Scott St Ronan's Well)
To cause (someone) to not know what to do due to some problem, situation, etc.; to bewilder, to confound, to perplex.
(RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night)
(RQ:T. Herbert Travaile)
(RQ:Brome Joviall Crew)
(RQ:Dampier New Voyage)
''Often followed by'' about'','' over'', or'' upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
''Often followed by'' about'','' over'', or'' or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
(ux)
(RQ:Camden Remaines)
(RQ:Warburton Divine Legation)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2)
''Followed by'' through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; ''often in'' in a puzzle: an instance of this.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(RQ:Austen Mansfield Park)
(RQ:Gaskell Cranford)
A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
(RQ:More Antidote) be ſo many ſprigs of the common Soul of the vvorld, or particular ſubſiſtencies of themſelves; there is no great inconvenience in acknovvledging that it may be either vvay.
(RQ:Gray Works) Vertue, Mr. D'Urry, and Bishop Tanner (quote-gloss).
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
(RQ:Doyle Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes)
(senseid) ''Often preceded by a descriptive word'': a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
(sense) (synonyms)
(RQ:Scott Waverley) looked not unlike that ingenious puzzle, called ''a reel in a bottle'', the marvel of children, (and of some grown people too, myself for one,) who can neither comprehend the mystery how it has got in, or how it is to be taken out.
(RQ:Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover) Everything was perfectly new, and the whole thing, when shut up, was as big as a small, but fat week-end bag. And inside, it fitted together like a puzzle.
(short for).
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Dickinson (engraver)|William Dickinson,(nb...); S. Hooper,(nb...); and J. Archer, and R. White,(nb...)|pages=1–2|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/annals-of-horsemanship-1791/page/n28/mode/1up|oclc=228740960|passage=So I ſent for a carpenter, on the receipt of your recipe, and had a large Puzzle of Oak made for him (quote-gloss), after the pattern of thoſe vvorn by the Squire's Pointers; and I have found it anſvver prodigiouſly.
(syn)
a difficult problem
puzzle (gl)
(inflection of)
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