Brunt

n.	1.	The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
	2.	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.

Noun

1.

brunt - main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"

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