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Synonyms for bruit

Grammar : Verb
Spell : broot
Phonetic Transcription : brut

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Définition of bruit

Origin :
  • "to report," 1520s, from bruit (n.) "rumor, tiding, fame, renown" (mid-15c.), from French bruit (n.), from bruire "to make noise, roar," of uncertain origin. Related: Bruited; bruiting.
  • verb rumor
Example sentences :
  • The bruit revived, which had broken out a year before—that the house was haunted.
  • Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
  • There was no headache and the man himself did not notice the bruit.
  • Extract from : « Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 » by George Henry Makins
  • By this doing the King heard the common brute (bruit) of himself.
  • Extract from : « Royal Edinburgh » by Margaret Oliphant
  • This that my brethren report may well be true, and yet I take no shame in the bruit or “fama.”
  • Extract from : « A Monk of Fife » by Andrew Lang
  • They bruit of wars—that thunder heard in dreams; Huge insurrections, and dynastic changes Resolved in blood.
  • Extract from : « My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale » by Thomas Woolner
  • The Arrowes of Mosco at the first made them pause upon the matter, thinking by his bruit and skipping, there were many Salvages.
  • Extract from : « Legends of Loudoun » by Harrison Williams
  • The same sound can be produced by shaking the patient (bruit de glou-glou).
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The arrows of Mosco at the first made them pause upon the matter, thinking by his bruit and skipping, there were many savages.
  • Extract from : « The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia » by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn
  • For bruit of the advance of the Saxon troops was in every mouth, though no one knew anything for certain.
  • Extract from : « The Mercenary » by W. J. Eccott
  • On the other hand, no trumpet is thought loud enough to bruit about a suspicion that Man may be a creature of yet remoter date.
  • Extract from : « Inspiration and Interpretation » by John Burgon

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