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/bəfˈeɪd/ /bˈəfˌɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Buffet v. t. (past & past part. buffeted; pres. part. buffeting)

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. "They spit in his face and buffeted him."

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. "The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores." "You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world."

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buffet v. i.

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. "If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher."

To make one's way by blows or struggling. "Strove to buffet to land in vain."

adjective

buffeted adj. Struck repeatedly; used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.

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Etymology of 'Buffeted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buffeted" Quotes from Famous Books

... is so hungry, and his loyalty to God so urgent and so conquering. Jean Valjean has suffered much. Ulysses, buffeted by wars and stormy seas, has had a life of calm as compared with this new hero. Ulysses' battles were from without; Valjean's battles were from within. But if he has suffered greatly, he has also been greatly blessed. Struggle ...

— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

... be a never-ending procession—faces that were apathetic from repeated disappointments, faces that scowled threateningly, brave faces tense with determination and sad faces on which was written the story of struggle hidden within many a lonely wind-buffeted shack on the great ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... thousands, with their joys and cares. 'T is but as yesterday since on yon stars, Which now I view, the Chaldee shepherd[3] gazed In his mid watch observant, and disposed The twinkling hosts as fancy gave them shape. Yet in the interim what mighty shocks Have buffeted mankind—whole nations razed— Cities made desolate—the polish'd sunk To barbarism, and once barbaric states Swaying the wand of science and of arts; Illustrious deeds and memorable names Blotted from record, and upon the tongue Of ...

— The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas • Henry Kirke White

... our own North Atlantic; but to a small vessel like the Iroquois, with the machinery of the day, the monsoon, blowing at times a three-quarters gale, was not an adversary to be disregarded, for all the sunshiny, bluff heartiness with which it buffeted you, as a big boy at school breezily thrashes a smaller for his own good. To-day we have to stop and think, to realize the immense progress in size and power of steam-vessels since 1867. We forget facts, and judge doings of the past ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... of his guilt, unending, ineradicable guilt, swept down upon him again and beat him and flattened him and buffeted him. It left him shaken and beaten. He was not able to face this thing. It was too big for him. He was after all only a boy, a lost boy, travelling alone in the dark, under the unconcerned stars. He had been caught and crushed between forces ...

— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher

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