baffle
suomi-englanti sanakirjabaffle englannista suomeksi
läppä, suuntauslevy, ohjauslevy, jakolevy
estää
varjostaa ääntä, rajoittaa ääntä
hämmennyttää, saattaa ymmälle
hämätä, hämmentää; ihmeissään">olla ihmeissään to be baffled, sekaisin">olla sekaisin, olla ymmällään">olla ymmällään
kamppailla turhaan">kamppailla turhaan
Substantiivi
baffle englanniksi
To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle. (defdate)
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(RQ:South Twelve Sermons)
(RQ:Locke Conduct)
(RQ:Prescott Mexico) Such was the astonishing precision displayed by the Aztecs, or, perhaps, by their more polished Toltec predecessors, in these computations, so difficult as to have baffled, till a comparatively recent period, the most enlightened nations of Christendom!
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
To defeat, frustrate, or thwart (someone or their efforts, plans, etc.); to confound, to foil. (defdate)
(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes)
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons)&93; himſelf took, vvhen the Devil plied him vvith Temptation: Still he had a ''ſuitable Scripture'' ready to repel and baffle them all, one after another; every pertinent Text urged home being a direct Stab to a Temptation.
(RQ:Tatler), and Mr. Bernard Lintot|Bernard Lintot.
(RQ:Johnson Rambler)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Disraeli Vivian Grey)
(RQ:Cooper Heidenmauer) forgiving to a degree that might lead us to call him easy, but for a consistency that never seemeth to yield to any influence of season, events, or hopes. Truly, this is a man that baffleth all my knowledge!
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)&93; reached manhood he knew how to keep secrets, how to baffle curiosity by dry and guarded answers, how to conceal all passions under the same show of grave tranquillity.
(RQ:Froude Short Studies)
(RQ:Camoes Burton Lyricks)
(RQ:Shaw Three Plays)
(RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales) But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.
Of weather or wind: to hinder or prevent (a ship or its crew) from advancing.
(RQ:Marryat Peter Simple)
To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).
(RQ:Ransom Chills and Fever)
(RQ:Milton Hirelings)
(RQ:Defoe Devil) if he Devil had not had a Mind to cheat or baffle the poor Man, vvhat need he have taken a Covv ſo near home?
''Followed by'' away ''or'' out: to deprive of (something) through cheating or manipulation; also (''followed by'' ofPreposition|out of), to deprive of something by cheating or manipulating (someone).
(RQ:Milton Divorce)
(RQ:Allestree Ladies Calling)
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)
To argue or complain in a petty or trivial manner; to quibble.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) T. C. for Crooke and William Cooke|Andrew Crook,(nb...)|year=1658|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7lBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA47|oclc=15480011|passage=But if any one of thoſe ſharp arrovvs of divine truth vvhich are ſhot from heaven, vvhich thou haſt heard of, ſeen, and received into thy breſt, vvhich thou canſt vvith no colour of reaſon deny, or repel, and vvhich vvith much adoe thou baffleſt and ſhuffleſt off to a kind of cavilling ''unbelief''; I ſay, if but one of them had vvell fixed it ſelfe upon thy heart and conſcience, it vvould move thee to the ſpeedy thoughts and ''eſſays of repentance''; (..)
(RQ:Barrow Works) Is it then just or seemly, by such comparisons to disparage his favor, by such pretences to baffle with his goodness?
(senseid) A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.
Bewilderment, confusion; bafflement; an instance of this.
A barrier designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint; a quibble.
To publicly disgrace (someone); specifically, a recreant knight. (defdate)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Allestree Gentlemans Calling)
(RQ:Josephus L'Estrange Wars)
To treat (someone) with contempt; to disgrace; also, to speak of (someone or something) in contemptuous terms; to ill of, to vilify. (defdate)
(RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse)
(RQ:Hall Peace of Rome)
(RQ:Marvell Rehearsal)
(RQ:Shadwell Volunteers)
Intentional insult; affront; also, disgrace; an instance of this.
(RQ:Howell Epistolae) If you get but once handſomely off, you are made ever after; for you vvill be free from all Baffles and Affronts.
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