brunt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun main force of a blow etc
    • bore the brunt of the attack

WordNet

Brunt noun
Etymology
OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913