baffle

1. v. t. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. Source: opted

2. v. t. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. Source: opted

3. v. t. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. Source: opted

4. v. i. To practice deceit. Source: opted

5. v. i. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. Source: opted

6. n. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. Source: opted

7. n. a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy Source: wordnet

8. v. be a mystery or bewildering to Source: wordnet

9. v. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of Source: wordnet

10. v. restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) Source: wordnet

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