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Contradict vs Baffle - What's the difference?

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Contradict is a related term of baffle.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between contradict and baffle

is that contradict is (obsolete) to speak against; to forbid while baffle is (obsolete) to hoodwink or deceive (someone).

As verbs the difference between contradict and baffle

is that contradict is (obsolete) to speak against; to forbid while baffle is (obsolete) to publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

As a noun baffle is

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.

contradict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
  • *, New York 2001, p. 203:
    • magic hath been publically professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted , though practised by some still […].
  • To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
    • His testimony contradicts hers.
  • To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
    • Everything he says contradicts me.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, / And say it is not so.
  • * Wordsworth
    • The future cannot contradict the past.
  • To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
  • * Hooker
    • No truth can contradict another truth.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * disconfirm * deny * dispute * question * gainsay * refute * controvert * dispute

    See also

    * gainsay

    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.