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BAFFLED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are frustrated and perplexed
Example:
the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("baffled" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Example:
she felt lost on the first day of school
Synonyms:
at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up
Classified under:
Similar:
perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb baffle
Context examples:
But he was baffled by lack of preparation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
While the link between amyloid-beta and Alzheimer’s disease is well-established, what has baffled researchers to date is how amyloid-beta starts to aggregate in the brain, as it is typically present at very low levels.
(Brain cholesterol associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, University of Cambridge)
At the sight a deep groan of rage and of despair went up from the baffled rescuers, and, spurring on their horses, they clattered down the long and winding path which led to the valley beneath.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulness on my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch; and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantly turning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of their unwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives, and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short we ran the whole crocodile gauntlet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was, I will admit, somewhat baffled by the difficulty of discovering an envelope to contain the gas, but the contemplation of the immense entrails of these reptiles supplied me with a solution to the problem.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was no thick mat of fur to baffle White Fang's teeth as they were often baffled by dogs of his own breed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You do not imagine that if I were the pursuer I should allow myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perhaps, also, it was the elemental simplicity of his mind that baffled me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
