n. [ OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t. ] 1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. “And heavy brunt of cannon ball.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
[やおもてにたつ, yaomotenitatsu] (exp, v5t) to bear the full brunt of [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Brunt \Brunt\ (br[u^]nt), n. [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna
to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. {Burn}, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or
greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a
battle.
[1913 Webster]
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of
cannon ball." --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our
first brunt with some real affair of common life.
--I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brunt
n 1: main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"
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