(v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
(v. t.) The force of a blow; shock; collision.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Syrians have borne the brunt of the hatred because of the unfortunate way they became associated with Morsi in the dying days of his presidency.
(2) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(3) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
(4) Canterbury and Christchurch in the South Island were expected to bear the brunt of ex-cyclone Debbie, with rain expected to ease in the North Island later on Thursday.
(5) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
(6) The firms responsible must take the brunt of the blame the first time it happens – but if they keep winning more contracts even after such failures, then it's those running the commissioning process who are at fault.
(7) When you go up from the Championship everyone says how great you are and you sit there and take the plaudits, so when the team goes down I’ll take the brunt of the blame,” said the Scot.
(8) Moments earlier Olsson had given the visitors the lead with a glancing header from Brunt’s corner to the near-post.
(9) It was observed that the young and engergetic persons first became infected, but as the epidemic unfolded the older age-groups bore the brunt.
(10) Women play a very important role in food production and often have to bear the brunt of the added burden of adapting to climate change in forests and farmland.
(11) For industrial users, Germany has become a source of cheap electricity — but not for private consumers in Germany, who bear the brunt of building up renewable power sources as a result of German feed-in tariffs.
(12) "The poorest families and children are already bearing the brunt of the government's austerity agenda.
(13) Suu Kyi's relationship with the generals has reportedly turned sour again In her tireless efforts to secure cooperation from the military, Suu Kyi has repeatedly expressed her appreciation, respect and “genuine” affection for the Tatmadaw (feudal military), which her father founded under Japan’s fascist patronage in December 1942, much to the dismay of many minorities who have borne the brunt of the organisation’s ruthless policies.
(14) They will bear the brunt of the job cuts in the public sector and they will also be expected to make up for the disappearance of local social services such as respite and home care as local government implements the huge front-end-loaded cuts this government has demanded.
(15) Central banks have borne the brunt of attempts to boost growth for the past eight years, but the IMF said more active use of fiscal policy would provide a better mix.
(16) Craig Gardner sent a header wide and had a strong claim for a penalty turned down, but West Brom were wretched, and Tony Pulis made two changes at half-time, Chris Brunt coming on for the injured Darren Fletcher, and Salomón Rondón joining the hitherto isolated Victor Anichebe up front after replacing Jonas Olsson.
(17) Berahino was not enjoying trying to contain Zaha any more than Brunt was.
(18) Children often bear the brunt of separation, neglect, abuse and trauma.
(19) [But] this is a signal that things are about to go to the next level.” The American scholar predicted the brunt of Xi’s ideological offensive would be felt by social science departments.
(20) Dawson, a player Burnley had tried to sign in the summer, headed home Brunt’s corner and a second goal soon followed from another training ground routine.
Runt
Definition:
(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
(2) In rabbits starved for 24 hours, and in runt rabbits body temperature did not rise, but a decline started 60 min after endotoxin administration, corresponding to the transient fall observed in well-fed animals and continuing until about the 100-120th min; thereafter body temperature tended to stabilize at the low level.
(3) Reduced function of runt results in female-specific lethality and sexual transformation of XX animals that are heterozygous for Sxl or sis loss-of-function mutations.
(4) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.
(5) Under specific pathogen-free conditions, NZB nude mice survive less than 3 weeks, dying of a runting-like disease with infection by local normally noninvasive organisms.
(6) Ever since the abnormalities of runt disease were first described they have repeatedly been compared to those observed in patients with certain lymphomas (17).
(7) Some runts failed to increase their metabolic rate in the cold and these had the lowest deep body temperature.
(8) This results in "multisuckling", with its large number of runts.
(9) Possible candidates include the primary pair-rule genes, hairy and runt.
(10) The role of selenium deficiency in the etiology of the runting-stunting syndrome (RSS) of broiler chickens in Australia was investigated.
(11) The runt gene is required in a developing Drosophila embryo for proper segmentation.
(12) Attempts to cause lethal runting of F1 hybrid mice injected at birth with spleen cells from unresponsive mice gave variable results.
(13) Immunization of females prior to mating altered the size of their litters and the incidence of postnatal death and runting, and the effect varied with the antigen used.
(14) In the absence of defectives all animals died, but in their presence 17 of 23 animals survived and 15 of 23 became runted and chronically infected.
(15) Newborn mice, runting-like disease; bacterial inoculation; immunological response in.
(16) Alternatively maternal HLA homozygosity may predispose to fetal changes comparable to runting.
(17) Long-term effects of tolerant infection included mild runting, decreased survival time, and almost total sterility among females, largely caused by fatal virus infection of embryos.
(18) The affected mice were moderately runted and had deformities in all four limbs.
(19) The influence of prenatal growth retardation on epidermal growth and keratinization was studied in small-for-dates human babies, runt piglets and in rat fetuses subject to maternal protein deprivation.
(20) The heat productions of newborn runt and normal piglets were estimated over a range of ambient temperatures.