brunt

Significado (inglés)

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. (obsolete) A violent attack or charge in battle.
5. (obsolete) A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
6. (obsolete) A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/bɹʌnt/

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).

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