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baffle: to subject (a perjured knight) to public in famy by exhibiting the picture of him hanging by the heels 1H4 I. ii. 113; (hence) to disgrace, treat with contumely Tw.N. II. v. 177, R2 I. i. 170 “disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled,” 2H4 V. iii. 106 “And shall good news be baffled?”
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    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry IV, 1.2
    • William Shakespeare, Richard II, 1.1
    • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Or what you will, 2.5
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