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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. ``And heavy brunt of cannon ball.'' --Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. --I. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brunt n : main force of a blow etc: "bore the brunt of the attack"
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