To baffle is to confuse. If you are completely puzzled as to what baffle means, you might say that this word baffles you.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
Noun
a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
Verb
check the emission of (sound)
Verb
be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don''t know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
Verb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth''s amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
v. t.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a
recreant knight.
v. t.
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
v. t.
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or
defeat; to thwart.
v. i.
To practice deceit.
v. i.
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the
winds.
n.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
Baffle
He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see.2.
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.3.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
Baffle
Baffle
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
To practice deceit.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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