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Defenition of the word baffle

    • Defenition of the word baffle

      • To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
      • controls or directs flow of fluid or energy
      • check the emission of (sound)
      • be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!"
      • to hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge."
      • a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
      • 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"
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth''s amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
      • be a mystery or bewildering to
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

    Synonyms for the word baffle

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

    Similar words in the baffle

      • double cross
      • figure out
      • lick
      • puzzle out
      • puzzle over
      • solve
      • work

    Hyponyms for the word baffle

      • dash
      • diffuser
      • diffusor
      • disappoint
      • elude
      • escape
      • let down
      • mix up
      • riddle
      • ruin
      • short-circuit
      • stump

    Hypernyms for the word baffle

      • bedevil
      • befuddle
      • bound
      • confine
      • confound
      • confuse
      • discombobulate
      • forbid
      • foreclose
      • forestall
      • fox
      • fuddle
      • limit
      • plate
      • preclude
      • prevent
      • restrain
      • restrict
      • throttle
      • throw
      • trammel

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