brunt

Meanings

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
2. The force or shock of an attack in war.
3. The major part of something; the bulk.
4. A violent attack or charge in battle.
5. A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
6. A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.

1. To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
2. To make a violent attack or charge.

1. A surname.

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).