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# baffle

verb (baffles, baffled, baffling)

«baffle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To baffle someone is to puzzle them so they cannot understand or work out what to do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#m1)
2. To baffle a plan is to stop it working, to foil it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a clever person defeats a wicked plan, or a puzzle leaves everyone stuck.

### Examples

- Medea at once took measures to baffle them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#x1)
- The riddle baffled all the clever men. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#x2)
- The puzzle baffled me for an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; a baffling problem is hard, but it does not change the numbers.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «baffle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«baffle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/baffle.html) on Mova free.