BUFFETING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buffeting mean? 

• BUFFETING (noun)
  The noun BUFFETING has 1 sense:

1. repeated heavy blows

  Familiarity information: BUFFETING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUFFETING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeated heavy blows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

buffeting; pounding

Hypernyms ("buffeting" is a kind of...):

blow; bump (an impact (as from a collision))

 Context examples 

As she lay there in my arms, and I in hers, the flapping and buffeting came to the window again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had it in my thoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way of pursuing any fancy that he took—such as this buffeting of rough seas, and braving of hard weather, for example—when my mind glanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, and pursued that instead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the same moment there came a sort of dull flapping or buffeting at the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water; rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; then drawn again to land.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat, which had evidently been buffeting its wings against the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The poor fellow may have been seated at one time, but the flapping and buffeting of the sails had worked through the rudder of the wheel and dragged him to and fro, so that the cords with which he was tied had cut the flesh to the bone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)