Brunt vs Shock - What's the difference?
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The full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
The major part of; the bulk.
* If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
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Sudden, heavy impact.
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
* Thomson
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
Brunt is a related term of shock.
As nouns the difference between brunt and shock
is that brunt is the full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event while shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.As a verb shock is
to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.brunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina's winds.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
(head)shock
English
(wikipedia shock)Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
Derived terms
* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndromeSynonyms
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*Verb
(en verb)- The disaster shocked the world.
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).
