Similar words: puzzle out, puzzle, puzzled, crossword puzzle, puzzling, guzzle, nuzzle, muzzle. Meaning: v. try to solve.
(31) Historians puzzle over why, for 500 years after inventing gunpowder, China invented so little else.
(32) You know I can read very well, and I am never so well pleased as when I can get some of the troubadour songs, or some old chronicle, to puzzle over.
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