Brunt

[Brunt]

If you are the oldest child, you might bear the brunt of your parents' anger, even if you are not the instigator of the misdeed. Brunt means the worst part of something.

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The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

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

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.

Brunt

Brunt , 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.

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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Usage Examples

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.