Usually means: Main impact or force experienced.
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  1. brunt: Merriam-Webster
  2. brunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brunt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brunt, brunt: Wordnik
  7. brunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brunt, brunt: Wiktionary
  9. brunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brunt, brunt: Dictionary.com
  13. brunt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brunt: Rhymezone
  19. Brunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brunt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brunt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. brunt: FreeDictionary.org
  23. brunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. brunt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. brunt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brunt: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brunt: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brunt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brunt)

noun:  The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
noun:  The force or shock of an attack in war.
noun:  The major part of something; the bulk.
noun:  (obsolete) A violent attack or charge in battle.
noun:  (obsolete, by extension) A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
noun:  (obsolete) A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To make a violent attack or charge.
noun:  A surname.

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