baffle

baffle has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
• v. t.. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
• v. t.. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
• v. i.. To practice deceit.
• v. i.. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• n.. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
• n.. a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
• v.. check the emission of (sound)
• v.. be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
• v.. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"