brunt – English noun declension

English noun forms of brunt

Noun: brunt
Singularbrunt
Pluralbrunts

Sample Sentences

  • Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
  • There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […] [1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar:]
  • Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it. [2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey reels from storm's thrashing”, in The New York Times:]
  • If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
  • Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them?
  • Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot,
  • Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]

Etymology

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). See: Middle English Nouns 'brunt', Old Norse Nouns 'brundr'.