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US
/ˈbəˌfɪtɪd, bəˈfeɪd/
]
[ UK /bˈʌfɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌfɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
How To Use buffeted In A Sentence
- The body was buffeted about in the waves.
- The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes.
- Wind buffeted her, chapping her lips and slowing her crawl.
- The aircraft dived as it was buffeted by turbulence at 34,000 ft, lifting passengers high out of their seats and leaving them in fear of their lives.
- Nato is being buffeted by destabilising forces from within and without. Times, Sunday Times
- It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river.
- She has buffeted about from pillar to post for ten years.
- But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector.
- Perhaps bond yields are signaling an economic slowdown, but it appears more like they are being buffeted by financial instability.
- I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds.