bruit
Americanverb (used with object)
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bruits,
present (3rd person singular)
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bruited,
past participle, past
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bruiting
present participle
noun
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Medicine/Medical. any generally abnormal sound or murmur heard on auscultation.
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Archaic. rumor; report.
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Archaic. noise; din; clamor.
verb
noun
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med an abnormal sound heard within the body during auscultation, esp a heart murmur
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archaic
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a rumour
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a loud outcry; clamour
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Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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bruitsimple
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bruitssimple
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have bruitedperfect
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has bruitedperfect
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am bruitingprogressive
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are bruitingprogressive
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is bruitingprogressive
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have been bruitingperfect progressive
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has been bruitingperfect progressive
Past
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bruitedsimple
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had bruitedperfect
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was bruitingprogressive
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were bruitingprogressive
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had been bruitingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of bruit
1400–50; late Middle English (noun) < Anglo-French, Old French, noun use of past participle of bruire to roar < Vulgar Latin *brūgere, a conflation of Latin rūgīre to bellow and Vulgar Latin *bragere; see bray 1
Vocabulary lists containing bruit
Example Sentences
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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009
Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?
From Time Magazine Archive
She was never tempted to tell news or bruit from one student to another what was no concern of hers.
From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by R. G. Vosburgh
The heart-sounds were so weak that the presence or absence of bruit could not be safely predicated; meantime, the pulsations intermitted in a most alarming manner.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
"De tous les bruits du monde celui de la musique est le plus desagreable!" was my ever-recurring thought.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, which caused great marvel.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
If any man shall revive a quarrel by any scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation published by his Majesty in that behalf.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
Argentina’s government has bruited giving AI agents “person” status so they can operate businesses and engage in contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021
Then to the teased and bruited main business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
He swallowed, and said, “Some men say there is wisdom in wine. Such men are fools. At other inns other names are being bruited about, never doubt.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
But it's all our old lady's fault for bruiting it about!
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
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