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Verbi

1. To publicly disgrace (someone); specifically, a recreant knight.
2. To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.
3. (generally) To treat (someone) with contempt; to disgrace; also, to speak of (someone or something) in contemptuous terms; to speak ill of, to vilify.
4. (archaic) To defeat, frustrate, or thwart (someone or their efforts, plans, etc.); to confound, to foil.
5. (specifically, nautical) Of weather or wind: to hinder or prevent (a ship or its crew) from advancing.
6. (technology) To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).
7. To deceive or hoodwink (someone); to gull.
8. Followed by away or out: to deprive of (something) through cheating or manipulation; also (followed by out of), to deprive of something by cheating or manipulating (someone).
9. To expend effort or struggle in vain.
10. (obsolete) To argue or complain in a petty or trivial manner; to quibble.

Substantiivi

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Intentional insult; affront; also, disgrace; (countable) an instance of this.
2. A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.
3. (US, dialectal, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
4. A barrier designed to obstruct and confuse enemies, rendering them vulnerable.
5. (obsolete, countable) An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint; a quibble.