bruit
verb (used with object)
to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed byabout ).
were bruiting
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past progressiveof bruit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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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
