0 past simple and past participle of buffet --
1 (of wind, rain, etc.) to hit something repeatedly and with great force: --
The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.
We are buffeted by pressure and arguments on all sides but, at the end of the day, we are impelled to make a rational decision.
Disabled people have been buffeted throughout the ages.
It was quite an experience to find oneself dangling on a rope, buffeted by the wind, and with no secure, firm deck underneath one's feet.
This reminds me of the difficulties which confronted the aircraft manufacturers when aircraft were being buffeted against the sound barrier.
They find themselves buffeted by high interest rates.
They try to increase taxation whenever they can get away with it—when they are not being pressed and buffeted by public opinion.
Why have some of these schools been buffeted about from one part of the country to another?
Narrow margins were involved and there was the possibility of its being buffeted off course by international action.
