work out

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
work out (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to bring about by labor and exertion - work out your own salvation Philippians 2:12 (Authorized Version)
b) to solve (as a problem) by a process of reasoning or calculation
c) to devise, arrange, or achieve by resolving difficulties - after many years of wrangling, worked out a definite agreement A. A. Butkus
d) - develop the final situation is not worked out with psychological profundity Leslie Rees
2.
to discharge (as a debt) by labor
3.
intransitive verb
to exhaust (as a mine) by working
1.
a) to prove effective, practicable, or suitable - how this will actually work out I don't know Milton Kotler
b) to amount to a total or calculated figure - used with at or to
2.
to engage in a workout - works out regularly at the gym
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
work out (verb)
1.
to find an answer for through reasoning
SYNONYMS:
answer, break, crack, dope (out), figure out, puzzle (out), resolve, riddle (out), unravel, unriddle, work, work out
RELATED WORDS:
conclude, decide, deduce, gather, infer, judge, reason; clear (up), iron out, straighten (out), unscramble, untangle, untie; assume, conjecture, divine, guess, presume, speculate; decipher, decode
work out (verb)
2.
to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort
SYNONYMS:
carve (out), develop, forge, grind (out), thrash (out), work out, work up
RELATED WORDS:
churn out, crank out, turn out; cobble (together up), throw up; compose, construct, craft, create, engineer, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, generate, manufacture, mint, model, shape, tailor; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), devise, hatch, invent, originate; accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry out, effect
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, tear down; ruin, undo, unmake, wreck
work out (verb)
3.
to turn out as planned or desired
SYNONYMS:
click, come off, deliver, go, go over, pan out, work out
RELATED WORDS:
catch on; flourish, prosper, thrive; cook, percolate
NEAR ANTONYMS:
languish; flounder, struggle; decline, sink, skid, slip, slump, wane; crash, crater, crumble, flame out; choke, crack up, miscarry, misfire; fall down, go under; implode, self-destruct
bomb, collapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, founder, miss, strike out, wash out
work out (verb)
4.
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
SYNONYMS:
cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out
RELATED WORDS:
add up, average, sum, tally, total, totalize; add, divide, multiply, subtract; allow (for), deduct, factor (in into out), figure in; figure out, solve (for); count, itemize, number; calibrate, gauge ( gage), measure, scale; assess, appraise, estimate, evaluate, rate, value; recalculate, recompute, refigure
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