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# buffeting

verb form (buffet, buffets, buffeted, buffeting); plural noun (buffetings)

«buffeting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do; knocking about roughly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/#m1)

### In the lessons

describing a ship or a person tossed by sea, storm or hard luck

### Examples

- The ship was buffeting in the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/#x1)
- The wind kept buffeting the tent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/#x2)
- After his buffetings with the deep, he slept. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «buffeting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«buffeting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/buffeting.html) on Mova free.