Thesaurus: baffle

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1. v. t. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
2. v. t. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3. v. t. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
4. v. i. To practice deceit.
5. v. i. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
6. n. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
7. n. a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
8. v. be a mystery or bewildering to
9. v. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
10. v. restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)