[baf-uh
l] 
verb, -fled, -fling, noun | 1. | to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions. |
| 2. | to frustrate or confound; thwart by creating confusion or bewilderment. |
| 3. | to check or deflect the movement of (sound, light, fluids, etc.). |
| 4. | to equip with a baffle or baffles. |
| 5. | Obsolete. to cheat; trick. |
| 6. | to struggle ineffectually, as a ship in a gale. |
| 7. | something that balks, checks, or deflects. |
| 8. | an artificial obstruction for checking or deflecting the flow of gases (as in a boiler), sounds (as in the loudspeaker system of a radio or hi-fi set), light (as in a darkroom), etc. |
| 9. | any boxlike enclosure or flat panel for mounting a loudspeaker. |
| baf·fle (bāf'əl) tr.v. baf·fled, baf·fling, baf·fles
[Perhaps blend of Scottish Gaelic bauchle, to denounce, revile publicly, and French bafouer, to ridicule.] baf'fle·ment n., baf'fler n. |
