Dictionary Entry
puzzle
puzzle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. Face value is 26 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 26 · Words With Friends 29 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
- 2verb
The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
- 3transitive verb
To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
- 4transitive verb
To make intricate; to entangle.
- 5transitive verb
To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
- 6intransitive verb
To be bewildered, or perplexed.
- 7intransitive verb
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
- 8noun
a game that tests your ingenuity
- 9noun
a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
"he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"
"that's a real puzzler"
- 10verb
be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- 11verb
be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
"We puzzled over her sudden departure"
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