Brunt

3 definitions 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.
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     2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of
        cannon ball." --Hudibras.
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              It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our
              first brunt with some real affair of common life.
                                                    --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brunt
       n : main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "brunt":
     appulse, bulldozing, bulling, bump, burden, cannon, carambole,
     carom, clash, collision, concussion, crack-up, crash, crump,
     crunch, encounter, full force, hammering, impact, impingement,
     mauling, meeting, onslaught, onus, percussion, ramming, shock,
     sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, stress,
     thrusting, violence, weight, whomp