(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(2) In our center, 12 patients with an average age of 3 months were operated on for interatrial baffle correction of their TGA under surface-induced deep hypothermia.
(3) During a 3 year period, 54 children aged 4 days to 5 years, including 24 infants aged 3 months or younger, underwent the baffle procedure.
(4) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(5) Cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used for postoperative evaluation of eight patients who underwent intra-atrial baffle procedure for surgical repair of D-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA).
(6) And it was here, several years later, that I came looking for an answer to a question which has baffled many cynical film critics: how did a low-key prison drama, which was considered a box-office flop on its initial release, become one of the most popular movies of all time?
(7) and the frankly baffling: "Could have just started the greatest Facebook argument ever.
(8) Those against the changes include Crace, the 2011 winner Julian Barnes and Philip Hensher, who wrote in the Guardian: "It seems quite baffling to many writers that a major prize that has so successfully promoted them should move its terms so radically and for no good reason."
(9) Discrete and persitent echoes were noted within the original left atrial cavity and contrast echocardiography was used to establish that these originated from the interatrial baffle.
(10) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(11) I probably should have done this three months ago, but I’ve done everything right, we’ve tried everything and everyone has been baffled.” The dilemma was obvious: whether stopping now means she will be fully recovered for the run-in to the 2016 Olympics.
(12) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(13) Baffle leaks were found in five patients with mild bidirectional shunting.
(14) Much of late 20th-century human behaviour frankly baffled him.
(15) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(16) But as she sped along the pavement in Westminster yesterday, captured on film by cameramen and baffled tourists alike, repeating the words "we won!
(17) Right to left shunts ranging from 28 to 63 percent of systemic blood flow were found at the superior vena caval-baffle junction in four children.
(18) Subsequent RAC after reoperation initially showed insignificant flow through the atrial baffle, major flow through the HAV, and no shunt.
(19) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(20) 10.57am BST In case, like one of my younger colleagues, you were baffled by the Sam Cooke reference, this lovely song should clear it up.
Bafflement
Definition:
(n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Example Sentences:
(1) My bafflement index is much lower than it used to be.
(2) The next day she emailed the News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel saying that Osborne had expressed "total bafflement" at Ofcom's latest response to the bid.
(3) Talk to members of Britain's security establishment about Edward Snowden , king of whistleblowers, and the reaction is universal bafflement.
(4) And it's true that 10 years ago, King's original response – a sort of moleish bafflement that anybody would question his decision or expect him to account for it on the grounds of equality – would most likely have been the Bank's final answer.
(5) For the owners, this bafflement is a deliberate ploy to enhance the wow factor of reaching the lively reception and bar.
(6) A succession of high-profile topless protests since the group's formation in 2009 was greeted with bafflement and amusement by many observers, although given the heavy-handed treatment often meted out by bodyguards and police there is no doubting its members' courage.
(7) When Brown actually met an intransigent voter, we all know what happened: the views of Gillian Duffy caused him a pathetic mixture of bafflement and outrage, in an episode that continues to say something very powerful about Labour's malaise.
(8) Yuan expressed bafflement over the behaviour of Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, who apparently tried to muscle in on the takeover deal when he bought a chunk of House of Fraser from entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter.
(9) Lloyd Webber also expressed bafflement, saying he had no idea why the march had been banned.
(10) He plays defeat very well, too – it's in the stoop of his shoulders, the slump at the back of his neck – and there is what the US film critic Roger Ebert famously called Cage's "inner tremble", that look of excruciated bafflement that speaks to the panic of being alive.
(11) But beneath the genial banter lay bafflement and concern.
(12) In a post on CenturyClub – another subforum that has since gone private in protest – Taylor herself expressed bafflement at her dismissal, saying that “you guys know what I know” in relation to her departure.
(13) The mood in Louisiana over the Deep Horizon oil catastrophe has matured from shock, to bafflement, to anger and has now slipped into the surreal.
(14) Eliot had a point, however, especially in his contention that because of certain plotting problems in the play, especially the disproportion between Gertrude's guilt and her son's disgust, Hamlet's bafflement as to what action to take "is a prolongation of the bafflement of his creator in the face of his artistic problem".
(15) Mary Murdoch, an Ibrox-born Corby resident of 30-odd years, shares Magee's bafflement.
(16) There is no comparison between transgender people and Rachel Dolezal | Meredith Talusan Read more The hashtags #transracial and #wrongskin trended on Twitter, with many expressing indignation and bafflement.
(17) (Not to mention the intense novelty of hearing them – Reith recalled demonstrating his wireless to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife, who expressed bafflement that it had not been necessary to open the window to allow the signal through.)
(18) Eventually, sensing my bafflement with this final hurdle – she is guiding me in by mobile phone, her English fails her, and I do not understand Arabic – she comes down to rescue me.
(19) To all those who proclaim bafflement at the actions of those punishing Badawi with such gross barbarity, the answer can only be that it is being done to remind Muslims that they should fear and respect Islam.
(20) With investigators trying to piece together the couple’s history and motivation, family, friends and acquaintances continued to profess bafflement.