From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpiece something ↔ together phrasal verb1 UNDERSTANDto 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 COMPLETEto put all the separate parts of an object into the correct order or position He slowly pieced together the torn fragments of a letter. → piece→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
piece together• But little by little he would piece it all together.• Mariscotti was intrigued and as there are no government archives he had to piece the story together.• Urich has always been a likable actor, and he is sympathetic as a man trying to piece his life together.• We have the responsibility to put a piece of art together.• By their third lesson he could strip the barrel and put the pieces back together again faster than the instructor.• When you add vinegar to milk, the small solid pieces clump together and form larger solid pieces.• You just have to wait and catch your moment or piece things together as best you can.• Once play resumed, Steeg had the task of putting the pieces back together in a short time. 