MEANING
1. To hit or push someone or something repeatedly and forcefully.
2. A meal at which people serve themselves from a selection of dishes.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- buffeted by wind
- buffet the coast
On the page
Crosswinds buffeted the small aircraft.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- buffet
- Past tense
- buffeted
- Past participle
- buffeted
- Present participle
- buffeting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- buffet
- Present continuous
- am/is/are buffeting
- Present perfect
- have/has buffeted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been buffeting
- Past
- buffeted
- Past continuous
- was/were buffeting
- Past perfect
- had buffeted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been buffeting
- Future
- will buffet
- Future continuous
- will be buffeting
- Future perfect
- will have buffeted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been buffeting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: buffet; buffets; buffeted; buffeted; buffeting. Noun singular buffet; plural buffets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: buffets.
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