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. I. Taylor.

 

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