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piece

2 verb
     
piece2

piece something ↔ together

phrasal verb
1 to use all the information you have about a situation in order to discover the truth about it:
Police are trying to piece together his movements before the murder.
Her early life has been pieced together from several different sources.
2 to put all the separate parts of an object into the correct order or position:
He slowly pieced together the torn fragments of a letter.
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