work sb out
— phrasal verb with work uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/verb
to understand the reasons for someone's behaviour:
Why does he behave like that? I can't work him out at all.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- take sth in
- twig
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