unpuzzle

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ puzzle

Verb[edit]

unpuzzle (third-person singular simple present unpuzzles, present participle unpuzzling, simple past and past participle unpuzzled)

  1. (transitive) To solve (a puzzle); to work out.
    • 2010, Jill Kriegel (2010), commentary on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
      It is no ordinary paradox Dickens has set himself to unpuzzle here. The whispered truth behind every syllable of the human story is the staggering fact that finite man should find himself endowed with infinite expectations.