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# baffle

«baffle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to puzzle them so they cannot understand or work out what…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (baffles, baffled, baffling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To baffle someone is to puzzle them so they cannot understand or work out what to do. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#x1)
- The riddle baffled all the clever men. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/#x2)
- The puzzle baffled me for an hour. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [By Monday Lily is saying «howay» at home and her mum is baffled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baffle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baffle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.