buffeting

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English

Definitions

verb

To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.“to buffet the billows”
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

noun

A blow or motion that buffets.
Random, irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow

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Synonyms

pounding buffetting counterbuff battering bump blast walloping beat lambasting blow buster basting warming thrashing bastinado bash

Associated

aerodynamic turbulence stall mach vibration altitude tail winds aircraft flight characteristics flow

Rhymes

braying swaying slaying playing flaying surveying decaying praying straying conveying

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