brunt

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹʌnt/ / /bɹʊnt/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from placenames derived from the adjective burnt. Compare Brent. * As an Irish surname, variant of Prunty. * As a Dutch surname, possibly a variant of Bruns.

A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).

The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
“Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.”
“There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]”
The force or shock of an attack in war.
The major part of something; the bulk.
“If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.”
A violent attack or charge in battle.
“Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.”
A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.

verb

To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
“"… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?" "What if they do? We must brunt it." We brunted the storm.”
To make a violent attack or charge.