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Tempest-tossed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Battered by a storm or storms. poetic

    "When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea."

  2. 2
    Beset by adversity or fraught with dissension. figuratively

    "Divorced from Allan Wayne after a tempest-tossed marriage notable for locking each other out and scares over alleged kidnapings^([sic]) of their daughter, she married Arnold Grant in 1962."

Adjective
  1. 1
    pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities wordnet

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