puzzle Noun
( en noun)
Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
- Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
A crossword puzzle.
A jigsaw puzzle.
A riddle.
(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
- to be in a puzzle
Synonyms
* (anything difficult to understand or make sense of ): anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, enigma, mystery
* (game for one person ): brain-teaser, poser
* (crossword puzzle ): crossword, crossword puzzle
* (''jigsaw puzzle): jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle
* (riddle ): guessing game, riddle
Derived terms
* Chinese puzzle
* crossword puzzle
* jigsaw puzzle
* monkey puzzle
* puzzle out
* puzzle over
* puzzled
* puzzlement
* puzzler
* puzzling
Verb
( puzzl)
(label) To perplex (someone).
* (Henry More) (1614-1687)
- A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
- He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings
, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
To make intricate; to entangle.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
- The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
- They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* puzzled
* puzzle out
* puzzle over
* puzzle through
* puzzler
* puzzling
Related terms
* puzzlement
References
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mesmerize English
Alternative forms
* mesmerise (UK)
Verb
( mesmeriz)
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
* , chapter=4
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients
, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized , like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
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Synonyms
* (exercise mesmerism on) spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall
See also
* hypnotize
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