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Baffle vs Raffle - What's the difference?

baffle | raffle |

In obsolete terms the difference between baffle and raffle

is that baffle is to hoodwink or deceive (someone) while raffle is a game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

In intransitive terms the difference between baffle and raffle

is that baffle is to struggle in vain while raffle is to participate in a raffle.

baffle

English

Verb

(baffl)
  • (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
    • He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
  • (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
    • (Barrow)
  • To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
    • I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
  • * Prescott
    • calculations so difficult as to have baffled , until within a recent period, the most enlightened nations
  • * John Locke
    • The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
  • * Cowper
    • the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
  • * South
    • a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all
  • To struggle in vain.
    • A ship baffles with the winds.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
  • An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

    • raffle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
    • He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  • (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
    • (Cotgrave)

    Derived terms

    * meat raffle

    Verb

  • To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
    • They raffled off four gift baskets.
  • To participate in a raffle.
    • to raffle for a watch