Baffle: alternatives and connections

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Mixed; confounded.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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To care; to desire.

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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of…

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

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One who, or that which, diffuses.

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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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of Beat

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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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To bewilder or confuse someone

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To tread under foot; to trample.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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