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Hit by strong winds
Answer for the clue "Hit by strong winds ", 8 letters:
buffeted
Word definitions for buffeted in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities [syn: storm-tossed , tempest-tossed , tempest-tost , tempest-swept ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(l/en battered Battered), especially by strong wind. v (en-past of: buffet)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
buffeted \buffeted\ adj. struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.
Usage examples of buffeted.
They met the first of the thermal down-draughts and had to correct, buffeted by the air currents.
It buffeted her along, lapping her with warmth, until it ran into a kind of tunnel, carrying her with it.
It just fell — in a slanting southwesterly direction, occasionally buffeted into tangles by gusting winds.
No sooner did she recover her footing than she was hugged by someone else, she thought it was Manora, and then pounded and buffeted around in congratulation until she was reeling in a kind of dance between avoiding the celebrants and easing the growing discomfort of her feet.
The flight computer had reduced the external combat arena to neat ordered graphics which buffeted against priority metabolic warnings.
All of them were buffeted savagely by the tempest force drawing them inexorably towards the ceiling.
They tracked the hurtling starship as it buffeted its way through the upper atmosphere, then discharged the energy in their electron matrices with one swift burst.
Harpies and hyperspace starships spun and swooped around each other at hazardous velocities, their flights dangerously unstable as the massive distortion effects buffeted them as a tempest treated leaves.
Lady Mac was well over the nightside now, the swirl of particles around her forward fuselage glowing a faint pink as they were buffeted through the planetary magnetosphere.
He, a creature now purely of thought, was buffeted by the emanation of raw emotion.
The beast jerked frenziedly, buffeted from all sides by the terrible flame.
The thunderous beat of batlike wings buffeted her, and the dense forest below sped by in a verdant blur.
The moment the young drow stepped into the hoard room, she was buffeted by the sweep of giant wings.
The wizard's hand faltered, and he wove unsteadily, as if buffeted by the force of the unseen watcher's anger.
Enormous wings buffeted the air as the wounded hawk rose into the sky, trailing wisps of foul smoke as it flew unsteadily westward into the deep shadows cast by Ruathym's mountains.