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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
brunt
    n 1: main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of
      cannon ball." --Hudibras.
      [1913 Webster]

            It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our
            first brunt with some real affair of common life.
                                                  --I. Taylor.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Brunt:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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