01 n. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
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The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
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The force of a blow; shock; collision.“It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life.” — I. Taylor.