baffle

IPA: bˈæfʌɫ

noun

  • A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
  • A barrier designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
  • (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

verb

  • To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
  • (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
  • (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
  • (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
  • (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
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Examples of "baffle" in Sentences

  • He reasoned it was either a sword baffle or some other sort of protective armor.
  • Women who state that they "don't like other girls" and "can only be friends with men" kind of baffle me.
  • - The space between the bottom of the cookpot and the baffle should be the minimum required to maintain adequate draft.
  • I bought a baffle stitched (and if my use of the word baffle, baffles you, see "irony" in the Webster's Dictionary) down feather bed.
  • But that is not the only reason the French word baffle is better heard than seen as I learned the other day while setting out for a voyage south.
  • The impulses, memories, principles, and energies which we designate by that word baffle enumeration; indeed, they constantly fade and change into one another; and whether the self is anything, everything, or nothing depends on the aspect of it which we momentarily fix, and especially on the definite object with which we contrast it.

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