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verb/ˈbʌfɪt/
/ˈbʌfɪt/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they buffet | /ˈbʌfɪt/ /ˈbʌfɪt/ |
| he / she / it buffets | /ˈbʌfɪts/ /ˈbʌfɪts/ |
| past simple buffeted | /ˈbʌfɪtɪd/ /ˈbʌfɪtɪd/ |
| past participle buffeted | /ˈbʌfɪtɪd/ /ˈbʌfɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form buffeting | /ˈbʌfɪtɪŋ/ /ˈbʌfɪtɪŋ/ |
- buffet somebody/something to knock or push somebody/something roughly from side to side
- to be buffeted by the wind
- (figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBuffet is used with these nouns as the subject:- wind
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French buffeter (verb), buffet (noun), diminutive of bufe ‘blow’.
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