to piece together
1piece together — To put together bit by bit • • • Main Entry: ↑piece * * * piece together [phrasal verb] piece (something) together or piece together (something) : to make (something) by bringing together various parts or pieces She …
2piece together (something) — 1. to combine many small details to give a complete description of something. In this account, Rawson tries to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy. I hadn t told anyone about it, though I suppose someone could have pieced it… …
3piece together — index combine (join together), consolidate (unite), devise (invent), fabricate (construct) …
4piece together — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you piece together the truth about something, you gradually discover it. [V P n (not pron)] They ve pieced together his movements for the last few days before his death... [V P what] In the following days, Francis was able to… …
5piece together — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms piece together : present tense I/you/we/they piece together he/she/it pieces together present participle piecing together past tense pieced together past participle pieced together 1) to learn the truth about… …
6piece together — verb To assemble from pieces. It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase …
7piece together — phr verb Piece together is used with these nouns as the object: ↑clue, ↑jigsaw, ↑mystery, ↑puzzle …
8piece together — put together piece by piece …
9piece together — Synonyms and related words: accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, band, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, build, build up, cast, cement, chain, clap together, collect, combine, compose, compound, comprise,… …
10piece together — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. combine, make, create; see assemble 3 …
