Phrasal Verbs
- 1to understand a story, situation, etc. by taking all the facts and details about it and putting them together Police are trying to piece together the last hours of her life. The account of their journey has been pieced together from personal letters and diaries.
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- 2to put all the separate parts of something together to make a complete whole synonym assemble to piece together a jigsaw puzzle She tried to piece together the check which he had just torn up.