plural of baffle

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex. / (intransitive) To struggle in vain. / (now rare) To foil; to thwart. / (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

simple past tense and past participle of baffle

thoroughly confused, puzzled / (not comparable) having baffles

An act of foiling or thwarting.

Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering. / frustrating

present participle of baffle

plural of baffling

(nautical) A wind that frequently shifts from one point to another.