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What (who) is brunt - definition
FAMILY NAME
brunt
n. to bear, take the brunt (our battalion bore the brunt of the attack)
Brunt
·vt The force of a blow; shock; collision.
II. Brunt ·vt The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
brunt
To bear the brunt or take the brunt of something unpleasant means to suffer the main part or force of it.
Young people are bearing the brunt of unemployment...
A child's head tends to take the brunt of any fall.
PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR of n
Wikipedia
Brunt
Brunt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Chris Brunt, Northern Irish football player
- David Brunt, British meteorologist
- Dominic Brunt, English actor
- John Brunt, soldier in World War II who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
- John Brunt V.C. (public house), the pub that bears his name
- Jon Brunt (born 1974), American curler
- Katherine Brunt, English cricketer and 2006 England women's Cricketer of the Year
- Martin Brunt, crime correspondent for Sky News
- Maureen Brunt (1928–2019), Australian economist and professor
- Maureen Clark née Brunt, American Olympic curler
- Peter Brunt, ancient historian at Oxford University
- Stephen Brunt, Canadian sports journalist
- Tony Brunt (born 1947), New Zealand journalist, activist and politician.
- Van Brunt House, historic home in Miccosukee, Florida
Fictional characters:
- Abraham "Brom" van Brunt, fictional character in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Liquidator Brunt, character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Brunt, remote-controlled drone of the Transformer Trypticon
Examples of use of brunt
1. Civilians bearing brunt of conflict Civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict.
2. "The longer we carry the brunt of the counterinsurgency fight, the longer we will carry the brunt," says Gen.
3. Civilians normally suffer the brunt of casualties.
4. Iraqi police and soldiers bore the brunt of other attacks.
5. The brunt of the added cost was borne by businesses.