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

1. transitive verb. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
2. transitive verb. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3. transitive verb. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
4. intransitive verb. To practice deceit.
5. intransitive verb. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
6. noun. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
7. noun. a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
8. verb. check the emission of (sound)

   Synonyms: regulate

9. verb. be a mystery or bewildering to

   "This beats me!"

   "Got me--I don't know the answer!"

   Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle

10. verb. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

    "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"

    "foil your opponent"

    Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart

Synonyms

regulate, amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart

Common word forms

baffled, baffler, baffles, baffling, bafflement

Words from these letters

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