Synonyms for brunt
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1. brunt

   Synonyms:
   impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock

   Antonyms:
   resistance, endurance, repulsion

Princeton's WordNet

1. bruntnoun

   main force of a blow etc

   "bore the brunt of the attack"

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1. • Force

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1. bruntnoun

   Synonyms:
   shock, heat of onset

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1. List of paraphrases for "brunt":

   weight, burden, shiner

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1. Police President Richard Beary:

   The entire criminal justice system needs to be looked at, but law enforcement is taking the brunt of it.

2. Greg Brown:

   If tenants are back to work and have cash flow again, that may set them up to pay rent in the future, but you still need the relief to pay the arrears, the people who feel this the most are the small owners. Their income is the rental properties they have. They are the folks who are taking the most pain and suffering from the brunt of this experience. That's why we need this assistance.

3. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.:

   There is one thing alonethat stands the brunt of life throughout its course:a quiet conscience.

4. Bill Costello:

   The E&P companies have taken the brunt of the pain that I think they will see in their business, so they will go into recovery faster and first.

5. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda:

   Women and girls continue to bear the brunt of sustained attacks on innocent civilians, victims of rapes are asking themselves how many more women should be brutally attacked for this council to appreciate the magnitude of their plight.