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baffle

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1. baffle - Noun

2. baffle - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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

To practice deceit.

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Got me--I don't know the answer! Source: Internet

a vexing problem Source: Internet

This question really stuck me Source: Internet

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foil your opponent Source: Internet

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