What does tempest-tossed mean?
Tempest-tossed means (poetic) Battered by a storm or storms..
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(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms..
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.
Like a battle-scarred, tempest-tossed warship, with her sails in tatters, her masts broken, and bilges awash, T. Mellon & Sons was, incredibly, still afloat.
Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas.
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.
There is little calm in their marriage, and it is almost always tempest-tossed.
And now, when any tempest-tossed soul fails to see that God is enough, I feel like saying, not with scorn, but with infinite pity, “Ah, dear friend, you do not know God! Did you know Him, you could not help seeing that He is the remedy for every need of your soul, and that He is an all-sufficient remedy. […]
Use tempest-tossed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tempest-tossed means (poetic) Battered by a storm or storms..
Common synonyms include troubled, buffeted, storm-tossed, tempest-tost.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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