Definition of baffle

• 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.
• 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.