BUFFETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buffeted mean? 

• BUFFETED (adjective)
  The adjective BUFFETED has 1 sense:

1. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

  Familiarity information: BUFFETED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUFFETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

Synonyms:

buffeted; storm-tossed; tempest-swept; tempest-tossed; tempest-tost

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)