different between brunt vs repercussion

English

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
   • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

     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, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:

     "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"

     "What if they do? We must brunt it."

   We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

• burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.

English

Etymology

From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.p??k??.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??i.p??k??.?n/, /???.p??k??.?n/

Noun

repercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)

1. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

   You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.

2. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

   the repercussion of sound

   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

     Ever echoing back in endless repercussion.

3. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
4. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

5. (obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Synonyms

• (consequence): aftereffect
• (consequence): consequence

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