To disgrace; treat with mockery or contumely; hold up as an object of scorn or contempt; insult; specifically, to subject to indignities, as a recreant knight or traitor.To hoodwink; cheat.To circumvent by interposing obstacles or difficulties; defeat the efforts, purpose, or success of; frustrate; check; foil; thwart; disconcert; confound: as, the fox baffled his pursuers; to baffle curiosity or endeavor.To beat about, as the wind or stray cattle do standing grain or grass; twist irregularly together.To practise deceit; shuffle; quibble.To struggle ineffectually; strive in vain: as, the ship baffled with the gale.In coalmining, to brush out or mix fire-damp with air, to such an extent as to render it non-explosive.n. Disgrace; affront.n. Defeat; discomfiture.n. Same as baffler, 2.n. An artificial obstruction (in the form of a board, plate, or cleat placed in the channel) to the continuous smooth flow of a liquid or gas.