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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

buffeted
    adj 1: pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities [syn:
           buffeted, storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-
           tost, tempest-swept]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

battered \battered\ adj.
   1. In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station
      wagon.

   Syn: beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down,
        dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. 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]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. Damaged especially by hard usage. his battered old hat
      [WordNet 1.5]

   4. beaten repeatedly; -- of people; as, a battered child; the
      battered woman syndrome; a battered wife.

   Syn: beaten.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

buffeted \buffeted\ adj.
   struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds,
   and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.
   [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Buffet \Buf"fet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the
   preceding noun.]
   1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff;
      to slap.
      [1913 Webster]

            They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt.
                                                  xxvi. 67.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive
      with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
      [1913 Webster]

            The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
            Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
                                                  --Broome.
      [1913 Webster]

            You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of
            your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
                                                  --W. Black.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling
      the clapper.
      [1913 Webster]

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