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How to pronounce “puzzle

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Practice the English pronunciation of puzzle with real speech in context.
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Who-doku: Sudoku with Personalitypuzzles um and one of the impetuses for
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How to pronounce puzzle

Who-doku: Sudoku with Personality

puzzles um and one of the impetuses for

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “puzzle

Meaning

  • [Verb]
  • (transitive)
  • (intransitive)
  • [Noun]
  • (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
  • (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
  • (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
  • (countable, hunting, obsolete) Short for puzzle-peg (“a piece of wood secured under a dog's jaw to keep the dog's nose away from the ground so that it uses the scent in the air to track its quarry, and to prevent the dog from tearing the quarry once found”).

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