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figure out

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
figure someone or something out
to begin to comprehend someone or something; to come to understand someone or something better. I just can't figure you out. I can't figure out quiet people readily.
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figure somebody out also figure out somebody
to understand why someone behaves the way they do I've never been able to figure her out. Could anyone ever figure out my parents?
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figure out something also figure something out

to understand something by thinking about it After I figured out that I would earn only eighty cents an hour, I said forget it. She spent an hour trying to install the software, but John finally figured it out.
Related vocabulary: puzzle out something
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