Associations to the word «Puzzle»

Pictures for the word «Puzzle»

Wiktionary

PUZZLE, noun. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
PUZZLE, noun. A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
PUZZLE, noun. A crossword puzzle.
PUZZLE, noun. A jigsaw puzzle.
PUZZLE, noun. A riddle.
PUZZLE, noun. (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
PUZZLE, noun. The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
PUZZLE, verb. (transitive) To perplex (someone).
PUZZLE, verb. To make intricate; to entangle.
PUZZLE OUT, verb. To figure out; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

Dictionary definition

PUZZLE, noun. A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler".
PUZZLE, noun. A game that tests your ingenuity.
PUZZLE, verb. Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me".
PUZZLE, verb. Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; "We puzzled over her sudden departure".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne