piece something ↔ together phrasal verb (see also piece)

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.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

piece together
piece together (something)
1.
to combine many small details to give a complete description of something.
In this account, Rawson tries to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy.

I hadn't told anyone about it, though I suppose someone could have pieced it together.

2.
to combine small things to make something bigger.
Peters pieced together night courses for five years to earn a college degree.

We had to piece the money together to pay off our debts.

Etymology: from the idea of combining the parts of something to make a whole

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

piece together something
piece together (something)
1.
to combine many small details to give a complete description of something.
In this account, Rawson tries to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy.

I hadn't told anyone about it, though I suppose someone could have pieced it together.

2.
to combine small things to make something bigger.
Peters pieced together night courses for five years to earn a college degree.

We had to piece the money together to pay off our debts.

Etymology: from the idea of combining the parts of something to make a whole

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲