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Definition of buffet 2 verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

     

    buffet2

     verb
    verb
    NAmE//ˈbʌfət//
     
    see also buffet1Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they buffet
     
    he / she / it buffets
     
    past simple buffeted
     
    -ing form buffeting
     
     
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  1. 1[often passive] buffet somebody/something to knock or push someone or something roughly from side to side to be buffeted by the wind
  2. 2(figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
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noun [uncountable, countable, usually singular] The tiny boat was poorly equipped for the buffeting it got from the wind and the rain.See buffet in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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