Baffle1. (v. t.) To disconcert, frustrate, thwart; to check by perplexing;
2. (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3. (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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.
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