| 单词 | buffeted |
| 释义 | buffeted (once / 5015 pages) adj WORD FAMILY buffet: buffeted, buffeting, buffets, buffetted, buffetting+/buffeting: buffetings USAGE EXAMPLESBut while center-right parties tend to lose voters mainly to parties to their right, many of Europe’s center-left parties are buffeted on all sides. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) Individuals and communities buffeted by economic change will continue to languish. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) We are buffeted by gloom, pressed into an emotional retreat by forces no heavier than mist. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) adj pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities Syn storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost troubled characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need |
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