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Troubleshoot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To work or serve as a troubleshooter.

v. To investigate as a troubleshooter; determine and settle problems with: "cited the service it performed in trouble-shooting an employee problem” ( Vance Packard).

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v. To analyze or diagnose a problem to the point of determining a solution.

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v. solve problems

Word Usage

"It's for this reason I had to rifle through America's past as I wanted to try 'troubleshoot' this situation, and I keep stumbling over the same problem: the assumptions set out at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 to this day are the cause of the symptoms seen with this guy."

Verb Form

troubleshooting troubleshoots

Hypernym

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fix restore mend furbish up touch on

Synonym

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debug diagnose

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