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puzzle over

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Verb1.puzzle over - try to solve
cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"


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To-day I had on my spectacles; her appearance, therefore, was clear to me at the first glance; I had not to puzzle over it.
"The roof and south wall is browed right away," continued the man, after pausing for a moment to puzzle over Smilash's meaning.
But no sooner had she began to puzzle over it than she burst into a chuckling laugh, holding both her hands against her sides.
 
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