| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To find the key to (a code, for example): break, crack, decrypt, puzzle out. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. To make understandable: construe, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, spell out. Archaic : enucleate. Idioms: put into plain English. See EXPLAIN. 3. To find a solution for: clear up, explain, resolve, solve, unravel. Informal : dope out, figure out. Idioms: get to the bottom of. See ASK, REASON.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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