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bafflingverbpresent participle of baffle to prevent from achieving a goalthe language barrier baffled everyone and discouraged us from attempting another teleconference balking, beating, checkmating, discomfiting, foiling, frustrating, thwarting barring, blocking, clogging, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up)arresting, checking, halting, setting back, short-circuiting, stalling, stoppingaverting, forestalling, obviating, precluding, preventingnegating, neutralizing, nullifyingcounteracting, offsettingconquering, defeating, overcoming advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nurturing, promoting abetting, aiding, assistingeasing, facilitating, smoothing to throw into a state of mental uncertaintyshe was baffled by the wording of the clause in the insurance policy addling, bamboozling, beating, befogging, befuddling, bemusing, bewildering, buffaloing, confounding, confusing, discombobulating, disorienting, flummoxing, foxing, fuddling, getting, graveling(or gravelling), mazing, muddling, muddying, mystifying, perplexing, posing, puzzling, vexing sticking, stumping, weirding outabashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingagitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingbeguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking blowing one's mind, going to one's head assuring, reassuring, satisfyingenlightening, informing in 1783 |