tempest-tossed
- s pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
- At week's end, the thousands of tempest-tossed citizens could only hope against hope that this was the end of it all, that new-brewing storms in the Pacific would spend themselves .
- A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones.
- Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship.