All puzzle synonyms
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- choke off β To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- buffaloed β any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- floor β that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- confound β If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- addle β If something addles someone's mind or brain, they become confused and unable to think properly.
- hold off β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- bewilder β If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
- figure out β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- fuddling β Present participle of fuddle.
- blow away β If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- get around β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- disorient β to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- enchain β Bind with or as with chains.
- get right β be correct about
- fox β Free Objects for Crystallography
- fuddle β to muddle or confuse: a jumble of sounds to fuddle the senses.
- muddied β abounding in or covered with mud.
- faze β to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
- gravel β small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- get to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- beat around the bush β to talk around a subject without getting to the point
- mucking β moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- cloud β A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- baffle β If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
- muddle β to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
noun puzzle
- closed book β something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- embarrassment β A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
- wordplay β clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- equivocacy β Equivocalness.
- indeterminateness β The quality of being indeterminate.
- gordian knot β pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- anagram β An anagram is a word or phrase formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase. For example, 'triangle' is an anagram of 'integral'.
- jigsaw β Also, jig saw. an electric machine saw with a narrow blade mounted vertically in a frame, for cutting curves or other difficult lines or patterns.
- labyrinth β an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- in-convenience β the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- ambiguity β If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
- crisis β A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
- conundrum β A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
- quandary β a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.