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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: brunt (0.00851 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to brunt.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: brunt
brunt
n : main force of a blow etc;
“bore the brunt of the attack”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Brunt
Brunt
\Brunt\ (br[u^]nt), 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision.
“And heavy brunt
of cannon ball.” --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our
first brunt with some real affair of common life.
--I. Taylor.
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