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 →

2) To baffle a plan is to stop it working, to foil it. tree →

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 →
• The riddle baffled all the clever men. tree →
• The puzzle baffled me for an hour. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baffle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.