Definitions
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- adjective struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically.
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- adjective
Battered , especially by strongwind . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
buffet .
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- adjective pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
Etymologies
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Examples
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CHICAGO mdash; Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois ...
Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010
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CHICAGO mdash; Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois ...
Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010
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CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades.
Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010
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CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades.
Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010
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CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades.
Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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On occasions, our plane would be buffeted from the turbulence caused by the planes ahead of us.
Biography of John G. Thiel Sgt, Radio Operator/Gunner, B-24, 576th Sqdn 1944
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That still leaves BYD's shares down 22% this year, the stock "buffeted" by signs of sluggish sales for its conventional gas-fueled cars.
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Perhaps Charles was right, for surely Paul was single-hearted in his hope of walking straight to his one home, Heaven, and he had been doing no other than bearing his cross, when he so patiently took the being 'buffeted' when he did well, and faithfully served his froward master.
Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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So Paul's master before him was "buffeted" as a slave, when about to die a slave's death (Mt
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“It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan.
Discourse.net: Shadows on Plato's Cave: Giant Hologram Version 2009
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