transitive verb. To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action.

transitive verb. To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).

noun. A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.

noun. A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.

noun. Disgrace; affront.

noun. Defeat; discomfiture.

noun. Same as baffler, 2.

noun. An artificial obstruction (in the form of a board, plate, or cleat placed in the channel) to the continuous smooth flow of a liquid or gas.

To disgrace; treat with mockery or contumely; hold up as an object of scorn or contempt; insult; specifically, to subject to indignities, as a recreant knight or traitor.

To hoodwink; cheat.

To circumvent by interposing obstacles or difficulties; defeat the efforts, purpose, or success of; frustrate; check; foil; thwart; disconcert; confound: as, the fox baffled his pursuers; to baffle curiosity or endeavor.

To beat about, as the wind or stray cattle do standing grain or grass; twist irregularly together.

To practise deceit; shuffle; quibble.

To struggle ineffectually; strive in vain: as, the ship baffled with the gale.

In coalmining, to brush out or mix fire-damp with air, to such an extent as to render it non-explosive.

transitive verb. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

transitive verb. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

transitive verb. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

transitive verb. one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

intransitive verb. To practice deceit.

intransitive verb. To struggle against in vain.

noun. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

noun. undefined

noun. A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

noun. A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.

noun. A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

noun. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

noun. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

verb. Totally bewilder; confuse or perplex.

verb. check the emission of (sound)

verb. be a mystery or bewildering to

noun. a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

verb. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

"But that is not the only reason the French word baffle is better heard than seen as I learned the other day while setting out for a voyage south."

bound  confine  limit  restrain  restrict  

raffle  

Embarrass  bizarre  confuse  contradictory  cryptic  

addle  amaze  babble  bafflement  balk  

baffled  baffles  baffling