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buffeted

/buhf-it/US // ˈbʌf ɪt //UK // (ˈbʌfɪt) //

挨打的,挨揍的,被殴打,被殴打的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a blow, as with the hand or fist.
    • : a violent shock or concussion.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    buf·fet·ed, buf·fet·ing.

    • : to strike, as with the hand or fist.
    • : to strike against or push repeatedly: The wind buffeted the house.
    • : to contend against; battle.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    buf·fet·ed, buf·fet·ing.

    • : to struggle with blows of hand or fist.
    • : to force one's way by a fight, struggle, etc.

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Examples

  • Also, place hand sanitizer by any outdoor workstations or high-touch surfaces and at the end of the buffet line.

  • Plainly the modern menu of sound is a vast, all-you-can-eat buffet.

  • The lamp is 24 inches tall and would work next to a bed, on a desk or on a dining room buffet.

  • The all-you-can-eat buffet brings out an exotic parade of creatures of various sizes, shapes and appetites.

  • The history of the buffet in America is a story of ingenuity and evolution.

  • It has been subject to political sensitivities and soapbox rhetoric, buffeted by popular disbelief and official omertà.

  • A re-elected President finds himself buffeted by violence abroad and hostile political winds at home.

  • Beltway firms large and small have been buffeted by the sequester.

  • In the last scene, he uses his calculus of flow to rescue an Iraqi boy from a fast-moving, wind-buffeted river.

  • The Czech government has been buffeted in recent months by a series of corruption scandals that have threatened to bring it down.

  • Thereafter we were buffeted like chips in the swirling maw of a whirlpool; we fought our way rod by rod.

  • Off the coast of South Carolina they ran into a heavy storm, and the great ship creaked and groaned as it buffeted wind and wave.

  • All night the gale buffeted the high windows of the church, and howled over the upland and roared through the woodland.

  • By this time the barque was being helplessly buffeted about amongst the reefs, a little less than a mile and a half from shore.

  • How gladly he would have seized this offer of a comfortable, luxurious home, after having been buffeted about the world so long!