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English
Etymology
From storm + tossed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stormtossed (comparative more stormtossed, superlative most stormtossed)
- Tossed by the wind in a storm.
The stormtossed ocean waves beat against the side of the ship and washed over its deck.
- (figurative) Agitated by conflicting passions.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:The fever left his body, and he rose to stotter about the doors; but he was still in his torments, and the mercy-seat was far from him. At last in the back end of the year came Mungo Muirhead to Caulds to the autumn communion, and nothing would serve him but he must try his hand at the storm-tossed soul.
Translations
tossed by the wind in a storm