Antonyms for figure outfig·ure out

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1. • Understand

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1. solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, workverb

   find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

   "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"

   Synonyms:
   influence, knead, turn, operate, act, shape, lap up, bat, cream, work out, run, function, put to work, figure, elaborate, lick, forge, clear, make, drub, form, compute, mould, sour, calculate, solve, work, exploit, go, play, work up, make for, mold, bring, clobber, thrash, reckon, act upon, do work, process, crop, exercise, resolve, ferment, cultivate, work on, cypher, lap, cipher, wreak, puzzle out

How to use figure out in a sentence?

1. Will Hurd:

   My job was real simple : figure out a problem, and then go and tell people I was going to solve it, my title was representative. That means I represent everybody -- people that voted for me, people that didn't vote for me, and the people that didn't vote at all.

2. Matt Brabants:

   For us it's about trying to find out how to create more fans of basketball. ... we want to figure out how to get more kids dribbling a basketball, the opportunity is immense and we are just scratching the surface.

3. Christian Bishop:

   We came in at halftime and had to figure out what our identity was, we finally showed what we can do. We just have to do it for 40 minutes. You can’t have four people playing defense. It’s five guys, working on a string together.

4. Rachmat Witoelar:

   We intend to increase the contribution and we will do so, but we have to figure out the timeline.

5. Justin Graham:

   It was definitely a shock. I didn’t know what to think when they first told me because we went into it not expecting anything like that, it was really hard to take. But then we just started right away trying to figure out what to do to try to get it taken care of.

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