Definitions for tempest-tossed

tempest-tossed tem·pest-tossed

Spelling: [tem-pist-tawst, -tost]
IPA: /ˈtɛm pɪstˈtɔst, -ˈtɒst/

Tempest-Tossed is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 434 anagrams from letters in tempest-tossed (-deeemopsssttt).

Definitions for tempest-tossed

adjective

  1. buffeted about, as by adversities.

Origin of tempest-tossed

First recorded in 1585-95

Examples for tempest-tossed

Of these, the earlier period is the climax of the "tempest-tossed" years.

I am not sure that I see the right, my soul is so tempest-tossed.

And so François Delsarte was tempest-tossed while yet a child.

They are like balm to this tempest-tossed heart and nerve-racked form.

On the other is a vessel, tempest-tossed, and a star guiding it to the haven of peace.

I am like a man, wrecked and tempest-tossed, clinging for hope to a single spar.

From which by courses retrograde you are now tempest-tossed.

The wind bloweth as it listeth; who shall say why I am tempest-tossed?

One storm will wreck a woman's happiness; but were I a man I should glory in battling with the tempest-tossed waves of life.

I am in a tempest-tossed condition, and can hardly believe that I stand at bay at last on the American question.

Word Value for tempest-tossed
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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