Crossword clues for buffeted
buffeted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
battered \battered\ adj.
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In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station wagon.
Syn: beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound.
Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; as, a battered old car; antomyn of unbattered. [Narrower terms: buffeted; storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept]
Damaged especially by hard usage. his battered old hat
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beaten repeatedly; -- of people; as, a battered child; the battered woman syndrome; a battered wife.
Syn: beaten.
buffeted \buffeted\ adj. struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.
Wiktionary
(l/en battered Battered), especially by strong wind. v
(en-past of: buffet)
WordNet
adj. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities [syn: storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept]
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.