OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28810

brunt

/bɹʌnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lo más duro • mayor fuerza • peor parte
The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
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, whi…
Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
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