Dictionary Entry
baffle
baffle is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
- 2transitive verb
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
- 3transitive verb
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
- 4intransitive verb
To practice deceit.
- 5intransitive verb
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
- 6noun
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
- 7noun
a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
- 8verb
check the emission of (sound)
Synonyms
- 9verb
be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- 10verb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
"foil your opponent"
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