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. Tadamichi Yamamoto:

   The brief ceasefire demonstrated that the fighting can be stopped and that Afghan civilians no longer need to bear the brunt of the war.

2. Charles Jung:

   We know from experience in the United States that once you demonize Chinese people, all Asian people living in this country face the brunt of that rhetoric, and you see it not just in spy balloons and the reactions surrounding it and TikTok and Huawei, but also in modern-day racist alien land laws.

3. Aroop Chatterjee:

   This is a very different kind of dollar rally and in this new world it is emerging markets that bear the brunt.

4. Fox News:

   But, short of that, if you believe in open borders, then … the sanctuary jurisdictions that should have to bear the brunt of the open borders. So that's what we're doing.

5. Afia Salam:

   Climate change is a threat. We are a coastal city. It's happening so fast and we will bear the brunt, people need to see the situation beyond individual events like a bridge falling or a road getting flooded.