piece together
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
verb
To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
Example Sentences
- "The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household."
- "It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase."
- "Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on."
- "The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night."
- "Arsenal have been piecing their season back together after a poor start and the manner of this win will provide added reserves of confidence and self-belief."