Synonyms for puzzles
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : puhz-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌz əl |
Top 10 synonyms for puzzles Other synonyms for the word puzzles
- addle
- ask oneself
- bamboozle
- beat
- befog
- brood
- buffalo
- cudgel
- discombobulate
- flabbergast
- floor
- flummox
- foil
- frustrate
- get to
- marvel
- mull over
- muse
- mystify
- nonplus
- obscure
- perplex
- ponder
- pose
- profundicate
- psych out
- put off
- rack one's brains
- rattle
- snow
- stir
- study
- stumble
- stump
- think about
- think hard
- throw
Définition of puzzles
Origin :- 1590s, pusle "bewilder, confound," possibly frequentative of pose (v.) in obsolete sense of "perplex" (cf. nuzzle from nose). Related: Puzzled; puzzling.
- verb baffle, confuse
- verb wonder about
- But here's what puzzles me: according to the way I figure it, you must have seen the girl first.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- He puzzles and puzzles, and asks me did I bring the draft, and was that your writing at the bottom of it?
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- The fate of Raleigh's colony is one of the puzzles of history.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- Men are annoyed at what puzzles them; they think what they cannot easily understand to be full of danger.
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
- It was another of the puzzles that he so constantly met with.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
- If he but knew that what puzzles me at this moment is myself!
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- There is an almost insolent well-being about her that puzzles me.
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- Such were the puzzles that tormented him as he descended to the drawing-room.
- Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
- I work out all the puzzles, and read the stories and the letters.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 » by Various
- "That is what puzzles me, sir," said Frank, fixing a troubled glance upon the fire.
- Extract from : « The Cash Boy » by Horatio Alger Jr.
Antonyms for puzzles
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