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Buffeted

To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

📖 Definitions of "Buffeted"

verb

1
To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2
To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
3
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
"to buffet the billows"
4
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

adjective

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
troubled	Anxious, worried, careworn.
tempest-tossed	(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
storm-tossed	pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
tempest-tost	Archaic spelling of tempest-tossed. [(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.]
tempest-swept	pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
tempest-tossed	(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
troubled	Anxious, worried, careworn.
storm-tossed	pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
tempest-swept	pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
tempest-tost	Archaic spelling of tempest-tossed. [(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.]
besetverb	(transitive, sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
shattered	Physically broken into pieces.
tarnished	Discolored or blemished.
hitverb	(heading, physical) To strike.
shakennoun	In a state of shock or trauma.
afflicted	Suffering from an affliction, or suffering from pain, distress or disability.
plagued	Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
stunned	Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.
whippedverb	Of food: prepared by whipping or beating.
affectednoun	Influenced or changed by something.
moved	Emotionally affected; touched.
strucknoun	A surname.
batted	Carrying a bat (the sports equipment, but maybe also the animal).
rattled	thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
ravaged	having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence