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baffling 音标拼音: [b'æfəlɪŋ] [b'æflɪŋ]
a. 阻碍的,使困惑的,不可理解的 阻碍的,使困惑的,不可理解的 baffling adj 1: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; " a baffling problem"; " I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; " a problematic situation at home" [ synonym: { baffling}, { elusive}, { knotty}, { problematic}, { problematical}, { tough}] Baffle \ Baf" fle\ ( b[ a^] f" f' l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Baffled} (- f' ld); p. pr. & vb. n. { Baffling} (- fl[ i^] ng).] [ Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b[= a] gr uneasy, poor, or b[= a] gr, n., struggle, b[ ae] gja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. b[ aum] ppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. [ 1913 Webster] The art that baffles time' s tyrannic claim. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. " A baffled purpose." -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] { Baffling wind} ( Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat. [ 1913 Webster]
Baffling \ Baf" fling\ ( b[ a^] f" fl[ i^] ng), a. Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- { Baff" ling* ly}, adv. -- { Baff" ling* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 21 Moby Thesaurus words for " baffling": bewildering, bothering, confounding, confusing, defeating, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, frustrating, intricate, mysterious, mystifying, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, upsetting |
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