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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

... were ushered into a chilly sitting-room and Miss Boutelle ran upstairs with Jimmy to prepare the invalid for Bob's appearance. He noticed that a word dropped by the woman who opened the door made the young girl's face grave again, and paled the color that the storm had buffeted to her cheek. He noticed also that these plain surroundings seemed only to enhance her own superiority, and that the woman treated her with a deference in odd contrast to the ill-concealed disfavor with which she regarded him. Strangely enough, this latter fact was a ...

— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... simply creatural things, all eager seeking after 'what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink' or after more refined forms of earthly good, brings with it the penalty and misery of 'for ever tossing on the tossing wave.' Whosoever launches out on to that sea is sure to be buffeted about. Whoso sets his heart on the uncertainty of anything below the changeless God will without doubt be driven from hope to fear, from joy to sorrow, and his soul will be agitated as his idols change, and his heart will be desolate when ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... North Wind met the man and tossed him upon its wings and buffeted him and chilled him to the marrow. In vain he asked for mercy, the North Wind would give none. Half frozen and sore with ...

— The City and the World and Other Stories • Francis Clement Kelley

... living thing Left in the world but I; My thoughts fly forth on restless wing, And drift back wearily, Storm-beaten, buffeted, hopeless, and ...

— Verses • Susan Coolidge

... for it but to rush on at a pace that was fast degenerating into a staggering trot, and in imagination, as the boys pushed me and buffeted me with their caps, I saw myself tripped up, thrown down, kicked, and rolled in the dust, and so much exhausted that I could ...

— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

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