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# buffeting

«buffeting» in Mova's school dictionary: **Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buffeting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffeting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.