(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.
Slinger
Definition:
(n.) One who slings, or uses a sling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
(2) The mud-slingers: the most shocking presidential attack ads ever aired Read more Regardless, with much of the art focused on sex and politics, it seems particularly apt in an election in which women are accusing the Republican nominee of inappropriate sexual conduct .
(3) HPLC analysis showed that this increase in immunoreactivity resulted from the hydrolysis of six apolar compounds that cochromatographed with the ecdysteroid esters previously shown to be present in newly laid oothecae (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and A6; A. J. Slinger, L. N. Dinan, and R. E. Isaac (1986).
(4) And from what I see of the London office, where a desktop PC lies mouldering in the corner like a relic from another era, they're generally hip, young Mac slingers who hold their office meetings on Skype and are as likely to be collaborating on a Google document with a colleague in Brazil for a campaign in Portugal as they are to be working on a UK issue with the person sitting next to them.
(5) For actor Jonathan Slinger, an RSC stalwart currently playing Willy Wonka in the West End, the relaxed performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a revelation.
(6) Michael Shaw Huddersfield The EU must show itself capable of much more than standing by as thousands drown at its maritime border John Slinger • Will someone please explain the moral difference between the politicians who closed Britain’s door to Jews fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany and those who now want to shut out people trying to escape from the disaster that has engulfed them in North Africa and the Middle East?
(7) Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger.
(8) That is a crucial point and one that is often overlooked by other burger slingers.
(9) Seemingly incidental characters include the married-socialite-turned-lesbian-communist Ms Dede Halcyon-Day, the terrifyingly normal Norman Neal Williams and Jon Fielding, fiction's hottest speculum-slinger.
(10) John Slinger (Labour party member from 1991 to September 2016) Chair of Pragmatic Radicalism • While Polly Toynbee correctly identifies the mathematical implausibility of Labour winning the next election alone ( 27 September ), that does not mean the Tories cannot be beaten.
(11) In his later years, he came to despise what he saw as tawdry dealings in overweight punch slingers with little of the skill that he had prized.
(12) John Slinger Rugby, Warwickshire • Perhaps a mass drop of leaflets in relevant languages over all the countries concerned, explaining the perils that await them, with graphic photos, might act as a deterrent.
(13) Ten days after the death of Trayvon Martin, Bo Morrison, 20, was shot dead by a homeowner in Slinger, Wisconsin, when he sought refuge on the man’s porch after an underage party was busted by police.
(14) It might sound a handy line for promoting the movie, but Garfield's delivery is deadpan, and he did grow up a bona fide Spider-Man nut, famously dressing up as the red and blue web-slinger for his first Halloween party.
(15) "I am invited to submit a script, and I whip off a word-slinger's delight wherein young take on old as a jukebox is tested in the Rovers' Return."