Word Finder - baffled

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To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

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To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

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To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

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I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.

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To foil; to thwart.

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To struggle in vain.

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A ship baffles with the winds.

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Thoroughly confused, puzzled

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Having baffles

His words baffled her.

I'm baffled and I don't travel well in the state of confusion.

Talon appeared as baffled as Bianca felt.

The directors baffled all such endeavours.

The diseases or sicknesses of beer and wine had from time immemorial baffled all attempts at cure.

She touched her cheek, beyond baffled by the confrontation.

Kellermann's cuirassiers and the heavy horse of the Guard (37 fresh squadrons) now advanced to support the baffled cavalry, the latter falling in as supports.

The scene in the next room – an open cavity filled with rusted equipment – baffled her.

He glanced round at his team mates, completely baffled.

Baffled. He really hardly knew her but thinks he's supposed act like he's grieving.

His dark, dry humor left her entertained – and baffled.

Community leaders were baffled by the sudden arrival and spread of this horrifying disease.

And both Arthur and I were frankly baffled by it all.

Burgess looked truly baffled.

Are you baffled by problems with your underthings?

As fast as Kris ran, he couldn't catch her.  He grew more baffled when she seemed to pull ahead of him without any sign of the exhaustion she'd showed when they stopped.  Desperation could motivate, and so could fear for her sister.  He pushed himself harder to catch her.  Thunder boomed overhead.  Forms he assumed were demons swooped above the canopy, casting shadows.  He caught glimpses of fur and wings through leaves and ran until his chest was heaving.  Hannah remained ahead of him, though he realized he was beginning to gain on her.  He had to reach her before the demons did and swept her away, as they had Kiki.

The Basques are an ancient pre-Indo-European race and the origins of their language have baffled etymologists for centuries.

If ideas for how to protect plants from frost leave you baffled, have no fear.

The scene in the next room – an open cavity filled with rusted equipment – baffled her.

Within the wells of Celtic folklore, the mystery of Loch Ness has baffled scientists for decades.

I'm still baffled why Telsa's keyboard switch only works with real PS/2 keyboards not with AT keyboards and a convertor.

Bolingbroke retired baffled and disappointed from the fray to France in June, residing principally at the château of Argeville near Fontainebleau.

The French king managed to incorporate a large slice of territory upon his northern frontier, but his main object was baffled by the steady resistance and able statesmanship of William III.

A motion to outlaw him was only baffled by the audacity of the president, his brother Lucien.

The audience 's initial reaction to these antics was stunned silence, swiftly followed by baffled amusement.

With the latter I waxed really eloquent, almost succeeding in reducing myself to tears in a mixture of emotion and baffled exasperation.

If you aren't familiar with Android, you may be baffled if you see the name linked to the phone.

Stuck in a confusing breakup that left you baffled?

They said-- " "Kyle, are you on drugs?" she asked, baffled.

In these contests the German king met with indifferent success, but the struggle with Saxony was not very serious, and when dying in December 919 Conrad recommended the Franconian nobles to offer the crown to Henry, the only man who could cope with the anarchy by which he had himself been baffled.

His next signal interference was during the incursions of the Syrians, when he disclosed the plans of the invaders to the "king of Israel" with such effect that they were again and again baffled.

Fact and theory sprang asunder; for theory had done its utmost, and was baffled.

During the Revolution it was constantly baffled.

His dark, dry humor left her entertained – and baffled.

The alternative – that Death might see Rhyn as a viable leader for the Council – was inconceivable.  No self-serving, reckless, half-evil being could be entrusted with the fate of humanity!  Baffled by the deity's bizarre visit, Kris pushed the memories out of his mind.  He had to find Rhyn.  He picked up his rucksack and joined Kiki outside the tent.  Kiki stood before a portal on the dark beach.

I'll scan some at a later date, and you can be equally baffled.

Of these formulae '(chosen because illustrated by Greek heroic legends) - (I) is a sanction of barbarous nuptial etiquette; (2) is an obvious ordinary incident; (3) is moral, and both (3) and (1) may pair off with all the myths of the origin of death from the infringement of a taboo or sacred command; (4) would naturally occur wherever, as on the West Coast of Africa, human victims have been offered to sharks or other beasts; (5) the story of flight from a horrible crime, occurs in some stellar myths, and is an easy and natural invention; (6) flight from wizard father or husband, is found in Bushman and Namaqua myth, where the husband is an elephant; (7) success of youngest brother, may have been an explanation and sanction of " tungsten-recht " - Maui in New Zealand is an example, and Herodotus found the story among the Scythians; (8) the bride given to successful adventurer, is consonant with heroic manners as late as Homer; (9) is no less consonant with the belief that beasts have human sentiments and supernatural powers; (to) the " strong man," is found among Eskimo and Zulus, and was an obvious invention when strength was the most admired of qualities; (II) the baffled ogre, is found among Basques and Irish, and turns on a form of punning which inspires an " ananzi " story in West Africa; (12) descent into Hades, is the natural result of the savage conception of Hades, and the tale is told of actual living people in the Solomon Islands and in New Caledonia; Eskimo Angekoks can and do descend into Hades - it is the prerogative of the necromantic magician; (13) " the false bride," found among the Zulus, does not permit of such easy explanation - naturally, in Zululand, the false bride is an animal; (14) the bride accused of bearing be 1st-children, has already been disposed of; the belief is inevitable where no distinction worth mentioning is taken between men and animals.

Thanks to the Internet, however, people requiring various special widths and lengths of shoes are no longer baffled by these purchases.

You weren't about to take a chance that you lose her, Gabriel said, sounding baffled.

It was hard to believe he didn't understand the source of her distress, and yet he acted as though he was baffled.

Desperate fighting now ensued, but fortunately, owing to the intersected ground, Soult was compelled to advance slowly, and in the end, Wellington coming up with Beresford from the right bank, the French retired baffled.

In the overthrow of the Spanish Armada they had already received a great defeat; with the Peace of Westphalia the Catholic advance was baffled.

Henceforward, whatever other subjects might from time to time claim his attention, it was from among electrical phenomena that he selected those problems to which he applied the full force of his mind, and which he kept persistently in view, even when year after year his attempts to solve them had been baffled.

Baffled, Toby shrugged and moved to the bars of his cell, looking to Ully for help.  Ully rolled his eyes.

It dashes at once into the middle of the subjects with the examination of a problem which had baffled the ancients, and seems as if it were tossed at the heads of the French geometers as a challenge.

His sermons especially abound in quotations and allusions, which have the air of spontaneously suggesting themselves, but which must sometimes have baffled his hearers.

Still no explanation of this singular fact was forthcoming, and it was reserved for the young chemist from FrancheComte to solve a problem which had baffled the greatest chemists and physicists of the time.

But his zeal encountered a check which baffled him for several years, and which left its mark in various inconsistencies and incoherences in his completed system.

When they were baffled, the Sadducees, to whose party the chief priests belonged, sought in vain to pose Him with a problem as to the resurrection of the dead; and after that a more honest scribe confessed the truth of His teaching as to the supremacy of love to God and man over all the sacrificial worship of the Temple, and was told in reply that he was not far from the kingdom of God.

Yet the words Schopenhauer then listened to, often with baffled curiosity, certainly influenced his speculation.