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bruiting

bruiting is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

bruiting (plural bruitings)

  1. The act of one who bruits something; the promulgation of news or rumours.

Forms of bruiting

pluralbruitings

Questions about bruiting

What does bruiting mean?
Bruiting means the act of one who bruits something; the promulgation of news or rumours.
What is bruiting the present participle and gerund of?
Bruiting is the present participle and gerund of bruit.
What part of speech is bruiting?
Bruiting is a noun.
What is the plural of bruiting?
The plural of bruiting is bruitings.

Words near bruiting in the dictionary

  1. bruiteth
  2. bruitified
  3. bruitifies
  4. bruitify
  5. bruitifying
  6. bruiting
  7. bruitings
  8. bruits
  9. bruize
  10. bruizes
  11. bruja

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