STORM-TOSSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storm-tossed mean? 

• STORM-TOSSED (adjective)
  The adjective STORM-TOSSED has 1 sense:

1. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

  Familiarity information: STORM-TOSSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORM-TOSSED (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 

With a northerly breeze it lies placid and sheltered, inviting the storm-tossed craft to tack into it for rest and protection.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of absorbing interest—the sea, running mountains high, threw skywards with each wave mighty masses of white foam, which the tempest seemed to snatch at and whirl away into space; here and there a fishing-boat, with a rag of sail, running madly for shelter before the blast; now and again the white wings of a storm-tossed sea-bird.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)