| baffle | (noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy | Synonyms: baffle board |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed | - |
| bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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| duffle | (noun) a coarse heavy woolen fabric | Synonyms: duffel |
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| (noun) a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings | Synonyms: duffel, duffel bag, duffle bag |
| effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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| kerfuffle | (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, to-do |
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| muffle | (noun) a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature | - |
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| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
| muffled | (adjective) wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy | - |
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| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: dull, muted, softened |
| muffler | (noun) a scarf worn around the neck | - |
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| (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: silencer |
| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: damper |
| piffle | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: balderdash, fiddle-faddle |
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| (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| raffle | (noun) a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money | - |
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| (verb) dispose of in a lottery | Synonyms: raffle off |
| reshuffle | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffling |
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| (noun) a redistribution of something | - |
| (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| riffle | (noun) shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | - |
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| (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet |
| (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| ruffle | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray |
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| (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruff |
| (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow |
| (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| ruffled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, frilly |
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| (adjective) shaken into waves or undulations as by wind | Synonyms: rippled |
| scuffle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, hassle, rough-and-tumble, tussle |
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| (noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scramble |
| (noun) a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling | Synonyms: Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe |
| (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| shuffle | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: make, shuffling |
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| (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffling |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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| shuffler | (noun) someone who walks without raising the feet | - |
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| (noun) the card player who shuffles the cards | - |
| skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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| snaffle | (noun) a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb | Synonyms: snaffle bit |
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| (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| sniffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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| snuffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snivel |
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| (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
| snuffler | (noun) a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) | - |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| truffle | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: earthnut |
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| (noun) creamy chocolate candy | Synonyms: chocolate truffle |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, earthnut |
| unbaffled | (adjective) not perplexed by conflicting situations or statements | Synonyms: unconfused |
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| unruffled | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, still, tranquil |
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| (adjective) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension | Synonyms: unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed |
| waffle | (noun) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron | - |
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| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
| waffler | (noun) someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner | - |
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| whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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