puzzle over

puzzle over someone or something

to consider or ponder. I can't puzzle out the mean—someone or something. Anne is a bit strange. I've spent some time puzzling over her. While I was puzzling over why she had slapped me, she did it again.

puzzle over something

to give a lot of attention and thought to something I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message.

Related vocabulary: tease out something

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mariano	-	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Xanthia	-	English (Rare)
Maxen	-	Welsh (Anglicized)
Melton	['meltən]
Andrej	-	Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Inge	ING-e (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), ING-gə (German), ING-ə (Dutch)	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch