bruit
verb (used with object)
to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed byabout ).
bruiting
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present participleof bruit.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.
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
McClellan's delays coincided with a bruiting of the news at Washington that foreign Powers were about to offer mediation.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams
