buffeting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun repeated heavy blows
    pounding.
  2. verb strike against forcefully
    batter; knock about; buffet.
    • Winds buffeted the tent
  3. verb strike, beat repeatedly
    buffet; buff.
    • The wind buffeted him

WordNet

Buf"fet*ing noun
Definitions
  1. A striking with the hand.
  2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
    He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

Webster 1913