Baffle

1. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
3. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
4. To practice deceit.
5. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
6. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.