Baffle vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Baffle and Puzzle
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Baffle
To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action
A patient whose condition baffled the physicians.
Puzzle
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle.
Baffle
To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).
Puzzle
Something, such as a game, toy, or problem, that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling.
Baffle
A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.
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Puzzle
Something that baffles or confuses; an enigma
The puzzle of the author's true identity.
Baffle
A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.
Puzzle
The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment
I'm really in a puzzle over how this happened.
Baffle
To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
Puzzle
To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
Baffle
(intransitive) To struggle in vain.
A ship baffles with the winds.
Puzzle
To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study
He puzzled out the significance of the statement.
Baffle
To foil; to thwart.
Puzzle
To be perplexed.
Baffle
(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
Puzzle
To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.
Baffle
(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
Puzzle
Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
Baffle
A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
Sound baffle
Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
Puzzle
A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
Baffle
An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
Puzzle
A crossword puzzle.
Baffle
A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
Puzzle
A jigsaw puzzle.
Baffle
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
He by the heels him hung upon a tree,And baffled so, that all which passed byThe picture of his punishment might see.
Puzzle
A riddle.
Baffle
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.
Puzzle
(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
Baffle
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
Puzzle
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
To be in a puzzle
Baffle
To practice deceit.
Puzzle
(transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
Baffle
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
Puzzle
(intransitive) To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.
Baffle
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
Puzzle
(transitive) To make intricate; to entangle.
Baffle
A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
Puzzle
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
Baffle
A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
Puzzle
The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
Baffle
A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
Puzzle
To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
Baffle
Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me
Puzzle
To make intricate; to entangle.
They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
Baffle
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
Foil your opponent
Puzzle
To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; - followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
Baffle
Check the emission of (sound)
Puzzle
To be bewildered, or perplexed.
A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing.
Puzzle
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Puzzle
A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution;
He loved to solve chessmate puzzles
That's a real puzzler
Puzzle
A toy that tests your ingenuity
Puzzle
Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me
Puzzle
Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide;
We puzzled over her sudden departure
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