BRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bruit mean? 

• BRUIT (verb)
  The verb BRUIT has 1 sense:

1. tell or spread rumors

  Familiarity information: BRUIT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bruit    ... he / she / it bruits   
Past simple: bruited   
Past participle: bruited   
-ing form: bruiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tell or spread rumors

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bruit; rumor; rumour

Context example:

It was rumored that the next president would be a woman

Hypernyms (to "bruit" is one way to...):

dish the dirt; gossip (wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include headaches, bruit upon head examination, seizures, and bleeding.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NCI Thesaurus)

But the being cherished as a kind of plaything in my room, and the consciousness that this accomplishment of mine was bruited about among the boys, and attracted a good deal of notice to me though I was the youngest there, stimulated me to exertion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)