baffle
Speech parts
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.
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This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
a vexing problem
This question really stuck me
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
foil your opponent