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bruited

bruited is the simple past and past participle of bruit.

Meaning of bruit

Verb

bruit (third-person singular simple present bruits, present participle bruiting, simple past and past participle bruited)

  1. (archaic, transitive, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.
    • And if it be to be beleued, as bruted is by fame. / A day did paſſe without the Sunne.1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 20, recto

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Words formed from bruited

Questions about bruited

What is bruited the simple past and past participle of?
Bruited is the simple past and past participle of bruit.

Words near bruited in the dictionary

  1. bruising up
  2. bruisingly
  3. bruisings
  4. bruisy
  5. bruit
  6. bruited
  7. bruitedst
  8. bruiter
  9. bruiters
  10. bruitest
  11. bruiteth

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