Baffling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BAFFLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• BAFFLE, to confuse, confound
• totally bewilder or perplex
• restrain or regulate (a fluid, sound, etc.)
NOUN:
• a device used to restrain the flow of a fluid, gas, etc. or to prevent the spreading of sound or light in a particular direction
ADJECTIVE:
• impossible to understand
• Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

Words related to BAFFLING

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Words that contain BAFFLING

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How to use BAFFLING in a sentence

• Heedless of what was taking place around them, the two chums devoted their attention to the task of baffling the designs of their two foes.
• An analysis of the principal character is a most baffling task.
• And the strength of his son, baffling to his cosmos, had won his admiration.
• Baffling as it was, as all manifestations of life were baffling, it had given him food for thought.
• After leaving the land, the weather was very dull and damp for six days, during which the wind being light and baffling prevented any progress.
• With all the baffling unreality there had been around her, she seemed to express reality.
• In what other sense could one believe in the Holy Ghost? And I am sorry to say that this pamphlet of progressive religious views is full of baffling observations of that kind.
• Cables were cut, and they stood out to sea, but, owing to the light baffling winds, made little way.
• All at once a baffling apprehension crept like a chill through his frame.
• He and his wife there took a fever which after baffling the physicians was cured by his own prescription.
• The winds were baffling and light, as usual in the morning in these latitudes, where, however, there is always a sea-breeze in the afternoon.
• The real power of darkness lies not in merely baffling the eyesight, but in creating the feeling of darkness in the soul.
• So far as it is now possible to penetrate his somewhat baffling personality, we might compare him to a Macaulay of finer edge, to a Dean Stanley of more vigorous build.
• The only answer was his baffling, mysterious smile.
• But the people remained faithful to his cause, and, even when danger seemed most imminent, succeeded in baffling his pursuers, and ultimately in effecting his escape.
• But soon after the wind failed us, and we had baffling light airs from the eastward, so that I gave up my design of carrying the ships between the island and the main.
• The situation was baffling to the point of irritation, but Teague betrayed neither uneasiness nor restlessness.
• I found myself fighting between walls close to the opening in the door, through which the light fell athwart my eyes, baffling and perplexing me.
• I had never sailed with Edith under such baffling winds as we now encountered.
• At first glance it seemed to be composed of phantoms, baffling, absorbing the tone of its background.
• The Malaita coast was only twenty miles away, but the last night a strong current and baffling winds prevented them from gaining across.
• Washington, baffling pursuit and flying from town to town, left nothing undone.
• A baffling element in viewing the art of Franck is his remoteness of spirit, the strangeness of his temper.
• He had a baffling sense of things happening within himself that were equally beyond control and explanation.
• Seventeen days of appalling dangers saw them through the Straits, where icy squalls came rushing down from every quarter of the baffling channels.
• Among the many baffling problems which the young man faces, and for that matter, any man, is marriage.
• The other chiefs maintained a cold reserve that was baffling and exasperating.
• Then he entered the open doorway of the hotel, and henceforth his whereabouts remained a baffling mystery.
• Some things in the traditions remain obscure and baffling.
• He had thoroughly searched the ground outside the cellar-window, but the sea gravel held its secret with a tenacity as baffling as the mother-sea herself.
• Something of the baffling suggestion of an amorous expectation and response left her.
• But he could take a scornful amusement in baffling speculation while he made up his own mind.

Similar words containing BAFFL without suffix ing

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