- 1[often passive] buffet somebody/something to knock or push someone or something roughly from side to side to be buffeted by the wind
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- 2(figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
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verbNAmE//ˈbʌfət//
see also buffet1Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they buffet he / she / it buffets
past simple buffeted
-ing form buffeting
noun [uncountable, countable, usually singular] The tiny boat was poorly equipped for the buffeting it got from the wind and the rain.See buffet in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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