0 past simple and past participle of baffle
1 to cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain something:
She was completely baffled by his strange behaviour.
The six puzzles examined could actually be suggested as the beginning of a long list of social and economic performance indicators that have baffled scholars.
The evening concluded with an excellent illusion act that had most, if not all of the audience, baffled.
These fading memories baffled the rare scholars who sought for some memory of that regime.
The contrast between the two letters left me baffled.
I confess myself baffled by this sentence (if that is what it is).
It is entirely of a piece with this perspective that such writers are somewhat baffled by the processes that they label 'stereotyping'.
Many commentators were baffled by the implausibility and complexity of the stories; others deemed the music without melody and imagination and the orchestra noisy.
This reader is baffled by what a comedy of the commons would be.
