puzzle

(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.

Đồng nghĩa: bafflement, perplexity

(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.

Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.

Đồng nghĩa: anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, mystery

(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.

crossword puzzle    jigsaw puzzle

Đồng nghĩa: brainteaser, poser

(abbreviation, alt of, countable, obsolete)(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”).

(also, reflexive, transitive)To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.

Đồng nghĩa: empuzzle, addle, baffle, lose, embroil, stick, stump, baffound, bamboozle, bedevil, befuddle, throw, bemud, bemuse, bewilder, bumfuzzle, complicate, confound, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, blind, dumbfound, entangle, ferhoodle, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flurry, fluster, flummox, fuddle, jumble, knot, mix up, muddle, muddy, ravel, perplex, puzzle

(transitive)To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).

(obsolete, transitive)To (intentionally) make (something) complicated or confused, and so difficult to resolve or understand; to confuse, to complicate.

Đồng nghĩa: confound, entangle, muddle, obfuscate

(obsolete, transitive)To cause (someone) to not know what to do due to some problem, situation, etc.; to bewilder, to confound, to perplex.

(intransitive)Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.

(intransitive)Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.

We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

(intransitive)To search in a confused or mystified manner.

(intransitive)Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.