think out

present singular third person thinks out · participle present thinking out · participle past thought out · past thought out

1. transitiveTo devise or solve by a process of thought.

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   I wanted to try and think out how it was that rational or even half-rational men could ever have learned to wear armor, considering its inconveniences; and how they had managed to keep up such a fashion for generations when it was plain that what I had suffered to-day they had had to suffer all the days of their lives.

   1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: decipher, puzzle out, reason out, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate