bruit
Americanverb (used with object)
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
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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
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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
"Le bruit du gouffre!" said Lacelle, looking at the Bo's'n.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
What bruit is this about the Cid, the lordling of Bivar?
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
But for such evil bruits Mr. Touchwood cared not, even if he happened to hear of them, which was very doubtful.
From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir
Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles
Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
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 Baird, Henry Martyn
The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
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
Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
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 Joly, H. Bencraft
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