Synonyms of buffeting

buffeting 1 of 2

noun

as in battering

Related Words

• battering
• turbulence
• whipping
• thrashing
• attack
• hammering
• assault
• pounding
• pummeling
• paddling
• pelting
• beating
• flogging
• bashing
• thumping
• harm
• battery
• smashing
• mauling
• drubbing
• belting
• injury
• whaling
• impairment
• upheaval
• threat
• licking
• onslaught
• batting
• damage
• hurt
• clubbing
• detriment
• shock
• cudgeling
• walloping
• terror
• tumult
• revolt
• lacing
• frenzy
• fury
• bludgeoning
• tromping
• outbreak
• riot
• socking
• rupture
• outrage
• paroxysm
• storm
• pommeling
• rampage
• rage
• uproar
• savagery
• brutality
• barbarity
• bullying
• violence
• bulldozing
• crippling
• browbeating
• hectoring
• mutilation
• foul play
• mayhem
• force
• maiming
• strong-arming

Dissimilar Words

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

buffeting

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verb

present participle of buffet

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

fierce winds buffeted the small sailboat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• battering
• lashing
• licking
• whipping
• hiding
• pelting
• beating
• attacking
• hitting
• knocking
• slapping
• assaulting
• thumping
• doing
• slamming
• punching
• batting
• smashing
• spanking
• pummeling
• hammering
• mauling
• paddling
• chopping
• bashing
• thrashing
• raiding
• smacking
• lathering
• walloping
• slogging
• storming
• flogging
• drubbing
• bludgeoning
• switching
• belting
• punching out
• working over
• lambasting
• whacking
• tanning
• whopping
• clubbing
• whaling
• boxing
• threshing
• wounding
• roughing (up)
• tromping
• fibbing
• lacing
• currying
• slating
• messing (up)
• swatting
• swiping
• belaboring
• assailing
• cracking
• basting
• besetting
• pommeling
• rushing
• whupping
• cudgeling
• birching
• bunging up
• thwacking
• beating up on
• clobbering
• strapping
• socking
• descending (on or upon)
• pasting
• clouting
• scourging
• lacerating
• flagellating
• jumping (on)
• cuffing
• busting
• whamming
• pouncing (on or upon)
• laying on
• caning
• whomping
• mangling
• goring
• horsewhipping
• pistol-whipping
• mutilating
• leathering
• lamming
• maiming
• rawhiding
• blackjacking
• cowhiding
• fustigating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of buffeting

Verb

The result is high-decibel acoustic loads that can cause structural damage as well as buffeting that can prevent the missile from even leaving the bay. — David Szondy june 04, New Atlas, 4 June 2026

Further enhancement could also come from the lingering effects of the fast solar wind stream from a coronal hole that has been buffeting Earth in recent days. — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 18 May 2026

In a publicity release, owner Mike Micallef summed up the Reata’s enduring legacy as a survivor of both a tornado and the buffeting winds of downtown business. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026

So even though there’s buffeting, even though there’s loud voices raised, left, right, and center, trans people exist. — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026

Under van Raemdonck, Neiman Marcus did well protecting its market share from the headwinds buffeting luxury department stores. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2026

Performances haven’t been ideal, but results are coming, and after the buffeting chaos of the early months of this season, that’s the best Forest can realistically hope for. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025

Toy companies and trinket manufacturers were buffeting kids with ads, and children were pestering their parents for gifts. — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025

Other, more recent macro headwinds, are buffeting the entire retail sector. — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025