[
US
/ˈbæfəɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈæfəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈæfəl/ ]
VERB
-
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
foil your opponent
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge -
be a mystery or bewildering to
Got me--I don't know the answer!
This beats me!
a vexing problem
This question really stuck me - restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
NOUN
- a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
How To Use baffle In A Sentence
- Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course). GreenCine Daily
- Eberle described fish ladders as custom-built, aluminum or wood water chutes with baffles.
- Among other things, he told them the plant didn't have basic pollution control devices called baffles, which are required by the state. The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air
- Gordo, the head post, is sending out bafflegab to media and students stating that what he is doing is returning autonomy to post-secondary institutions.
- To many baffled voters he must seem indestructible. Times, Sunday Times
- There was a lot of baffle or difficulties in all this way, I stayed in a dark abysm , but I've seen hope when persist in writing.
- The police were baffled, and Sherlock Holmes was called in to investigate.
- It baffles us how the Baftas were considered front-page news. Times, Sunday Times
- He offered an innovative design solution which incorporated the use of low-angle overhead baffles, concrete floors, wing wall baffles and a bullet trap system.
- He is indulgent about this, but plainly baffled.