All puzzle synonyms
puzΒ·zle
P p verb puzzle
- misidentify β to identify incorrectly.
- intoxicate β to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.
- defeat β If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
- counterplot β a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- blinding β A blinding light is extremely bright.
- deal with β When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
- muddy the waters β If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- entangle β Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
- obfuscate β to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- catch flies β any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
- disconcert β to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- blow one's mind β (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- fluster β to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
- draw away β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- muck up β a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up.
- hit upon β to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- embarrass β Cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
- befog β to surround with fog
- dumbfound β to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- lay low β situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
- fuddled β Confused or stupefied, especially as a result of drinking alcohol.
- fog β a second growth of grass, as after mowing.
- daze β If someone is in a daze, they are feeling confused and unable to think clearly, often because they have had a shock or surprise.
- give the slip β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- dead-end β terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
noun puzzle
- dog eat dog β marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
- quiz β an informal test or examination of a student or class.
- consideration β Consideration is careful thought about something.
- enigma β A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- issue β the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- difficulty β the fact or condition of being difficult.
- grabber β a person or thing that grabs.
- hot potato β Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- hangup β Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- magic number β the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- demurral β the act or an instance of demurring
- crossword β A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
- matchup β a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- abstruseness β hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- facer β a person or thing that faces.
- do or die β reflecting or characterized by an irrevocable decision to succeed at all costs; desperate; all-out: a do-or-die attempt to halt the invaders.
- fly in the ointment β Also called true fly. any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
- code β A code is a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done.
- disconcertion β to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- dilemma β a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- double-entendre β a double meaning.
- questionableness β The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.