What's the difference between baffled and mystified?

Baffled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Baffle

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.

Mystified


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Mystify

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
  • (2) His spokesman said that the producer was "mystified" by the police's investigation.
  • (3) Medicine is being de-mystified and individuals and communities are encouraged to take over responsibility for their own health.
  • (4) All of these insults to the Apple brand might have been borne, maybe, until the biggest insult of all came: a steady and otherwise mystifying drop in Apple's stock price.
  • (5) Complicated and mystifying as the snake envenomation process may appear, the toxic principles of snake venoms are biochemical entities that could be isolated, purified and characterized.
  • (6) This week we went in search of some of the most extreme prices – ultra-high and ultra-low – which highlight the mystifying nature of rail pricing in Britain.
  • (7) Everybody I spoke to said this, in a sort of mystified way: wasn't it different when we were kids?
  • (8) "I would argue to make the case that somehow we are in the dark is mystifying to me," Rogers says.
  • (9) His memoir The Discomfort Zone describes his older brother Tom leaving home after a row with his father: mystified and ashamed, the Franzen family "quarantined itself and suffered by itself", much as the Berglunds do after Joey moves out.
  • (10) Those who don't suffer from them find them mystifying; childish, even.
  • (11) It would be fair to say that the Spanish are shocked and mystified by the Brexit decision – and offended.
  • (12) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
  • (13) The government’s attitude to the BBC rather mystifies me,” Bryant told MPs.
  • (14) Stoke went into the contest on a three-match winning run in the Premier League and their manager, Mark Hughes, admitted he had been left mystified by the performance his players produced on his 100th game in charge at the club.
  • (15) Very rarely in my experience do the banks capitulate and reverse their decisions, however mystifying.
  • (16) Now there's a sense of shock, everyone's mystified and almost in a state of dread."
  • (17) Wenger admitted afterwards that he was mystified why they had left only one defender at the back and it was the same again shortly afterwards when Ángel Di Maria burst free only to try something similar and chip wide.
  • (18) You must hope we parents are so mystified by this that we’ll think it represents “rigour”.
  • (19) Paul Pogba fails to justify £100m price tag but does enough against Germany | Barney Ronay Read more Joachim Löw’s post-match demeanour betrayed a man mystified by elimination, particularly given the dominance his team had enjoyed throughout virtually the entirety of the first half.
  • (20) "What mystifies me is that Murdoch's attack on the Times can in the short term only hurt both papers by costing them both a great deal.