Both Uses of
baffle
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.†
p. 12..6 *
- And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.†
p. 15..8
Definition:
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(baffle as in: baffled her) to completely confuse someone