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baffle
  1. 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.
  2. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
  3. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
bafflement
  1. (uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.
  2. (countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. bewilderment, befuddlement, bemusement, puzzlement, confusion, perplexity, mystification, bamboozlement, bewilderedness, discombobulation, confusedness, distraction, fog, maze, muddle, tangle, whirl, head-scratching, stupefaction, daze, shock, surprise, stupor, disorientation, astonishment, haze, uncertainty, trance, incomprehension, muddledness, wonder, wonderment, amazement, narcosis, disconcertment, nadaville, discomposure, lala-land, doubt, glaze, gauze, obfuscation, disbelief, startlement, surprize, questioning, disconcertion, spin, awe, dazedness … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “With a little sigh of bafflement she took the last tightly-rolled bundle of clothing from the suit-case.”
      “Individuals who use this research drug feel some psychedelic effects, surrealness, distance disorientation, time bafflement, and blocked senses.”
      “Cut to Donald, his face a picture of bafflement, who clearly hadn't a clue what Nasty Alex was banging on about.”
bafflestone
  1. A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.
baffler
  1. Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
  2. Examples:
      3. “She span the fighter round, activated the sensor baffler and sped towards the asteroid.”
      “The longest baffler reef in the Western Hemisphere runs offshore, letting you reach along inside with 15-to 20-knot wind on a flat sea.”
      “Fast's elegant, enigmatic film is a conceptual baffler that's never quite what you think it is.”
bafflingness
  1. The characteristic of being baffling; mysteriousness.
baffling
  1. An act of foiling or thwarting.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frustration, blocking, foiling, spoiling, thwarting, obstruction, circumvention, countering, defeat, failure, stopping, balking, baulking, checking, crushing, dashing, derailment, disappointment, forestalling, quashing, scotching, collapse, crippling, curbing, foundering, hampering, hindering, impediment, setback, snookering, stifling, blow, contravention, hindrance, nonfulfillment, nonfulfilment, prevention, scuppering, unfulfillment, disturbance, nonsuccess, non-success, lack of success, ill-success, adverse fate, neglection, letdown, disintegration, disruption, hitch … more
bafflestones
  1. plural of bafflestone
  2. Examples:
      3. “The bioherms are constructed of bafflestones arid boundstones and tine internal sediment.”
bafflements
  1. plural of bafflement
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bewilderments, befuddlements, bemusements, puzzlements, confusions, perplexities, mystifications, bamboozlements, bewilderedness, discombobulations, confusednesses, distractions, fogs, mazes, muddles, tangles, whirls, head-scratchings, stupefactions, dazes, disorientations, shocks, surprises, stupors, astonishments, uncertainties, hazes, trances, incomprehension, muddledness, wonderments, wonders, narcoses, amazements, discomposures, disconcertments, doubts, gauzes, glazes, obfuscations, disbeliefs, startlements, surprizes, questionings, disconcertion, spins, dazedness, swoons, awe, agitations … more
bafflings
  1. plural of baffling
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frustration, blocking, foilings, spoilings, thwartings, obstructions, circumvention, defeats, failure, stoppings, checkings, crushing, dashing, derailments, disappointment, forestallings, quashings, collapses, cripplings, curbings, founderings, hamperings, impediments, setbacks, stiflings, blows, contraventions, hindrances, nonfulfillments, nonfulfilment, prevention, unfulfillment, disturbance, nonsuccess … more
bafflers
  1. plural of baffler
  2. Examples:
      3. “The code didn't connect directly to the labs, he had found out, but bounced the signal through multiple stations and scrambled the signal with bafflers.”
baffles
  1. plural of baffle
  2. Examples:
      3. “The catalyst baffles the gas and assists in the rapid heating of the gas passing therethrough.”
      “There were more baffles, ducts, and brackets with metal deflectors to cool that engine than you could imagine.”
      “He quits his job only to come back, albeit reluctantly, when a series of grisly murders baffles the police force.”
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