Meanings
present singular third person pieces together · participle present piecing together · participle past pieced together · past pieced together
- To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
2 more examples
It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase.
Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on.
2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?”, in The Guardian - figurativelyTo reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.
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Arsenal have been piecing their season back together after a poor start and the manner of this win will provide added reserves of confidence and self-belief.
2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 拼湊 /拼凑, 重建
- 拼湊 /拼凑 (pīncòu)to physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- 重建 (chóngjiàn)(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
Finnish liittää yhteen, yhdistää
- liittää yhteento physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- yhdistääto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- kootato physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- selvittää(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
French assembler, reconstituer
- assemblerto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- reconstituerto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- reconstituer(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
- réassembler(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
German zusammenfügen, zusammensetzen
- zusammenfügento physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- zusammensetzento physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- zusammenstellento physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- zusammenbastelnto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- zusammenstückelnto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- klittern(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
- zusammenklittern(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
- zusammenstückeln(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
- rekonstruieren(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
- zusammensetzen(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
Persian سر هم کردن
- سر هم کردن (sar-e ham kardan)to physically assemble from fragments or pieces
Spanish juntar, montar
- juntarto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- montarto physically assemble from fragments or pieces
- reconstruir(figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements
Cite this entry
piece together. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20together
“piece together.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20together. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “piece together,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20together.
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