baffle
verb (used with object)
to confuse, bewilder, or perplex.
had been baffling
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past perfect progressiveof baffle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Another problem we confronted eight years ago was one that had been baffling to Administrations since the 1970s: what to do to turn around the City of Camden.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
Now he had to be prepared for one of Sale’s signature, weird-angle, 96-mile-per-hour fastballs, the kind that had been baffling more accomplished hitters like Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2012
And so he stepped in among problems that had been baffling the Army for a long time.
From Time Magazine Archive
His face between the curtains reminded me strangely of the awful moment in the Prestonville Museum—paradoxically, for he was as genuine and reassuring as the Del Puente Giorgione had been baffling and false.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
He was anxious to get home again, but the wind had been baffling for some days, hauling about first one way, then another.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
