Brunt
[brʌnt]
Definition
(noun.) main force of a blow etc; 'bore the brunt of the attack'.
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
(v. t.) The force of a blow; shock; collision.
Inputed by Juana
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shock, heat of onset.
Inputed by Annie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock
ANT:Resistance, endurance, repulsion
Edited by Faye
Definition
n. the shock of an onset or contest: the force of a blow: the chief stress or crisis of anything.—v.t. to bear the brunt of.
Typist: Oliver
Examples
- I will bear the brunt of his wrath; he will not devour me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Whatever might be its effect, however, she must stand the brunt of it again that very day. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- McClernand's division had to bear the brunt of the attack from this combined force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is the very last thing I would stand the brunt of just now. Jane Austen. Emma.
- By St Michael, answered Front-de-Boeuf, I would thou couldst stand the whole brunt of this adventure thyself, De Bracy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Hovey was bearing the brunt of the battle at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This had received the brunt of our fire and seemed to be entirely unmanned, as not a moving figure was visible upon her decks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Those who to-day bear the brunt of our evils dare not throw themselves upon the mercy of their masters, not though there are bread and circuses as a reward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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