tempest-tossed

adjective

variants or tempest-tost

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: tossed about or agitated violently : thrown into confusion : overwhelmed

when upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed

—Johnson Oatman

send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me

—Emma Lazarus

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