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BRUIT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
It was rumored that the next president would be a woman
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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
