قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

To practice deceit.

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.