1. To hinder someone by being too hard to understand or to solve: The unexpected news of a tax increase by the governor baffled many of the citizens of his state.
2. To completely confuse or to bewilder other people: Joe was baffled by many of the scientific terms being used in an article he was reading.

Jane's strange behavior was baffling her mother because she had no idea why her daughter was conducting herself that way.

To baffle a man is to defeat him in his efforts to complete something by confusing him.

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