Definitions for bruit

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Spelling: [broot]
IPA: /brut/

Bruit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in bruit (birtu).

Definitions for bruit

noun

  1. Medicine/Medical. any generally abnormal sound or murmur heard on auscultation.
  2. Archaic. rumor; report.
  3. Archaic. noise; din; clamor.

verb (used with object)

  1. to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about):

Origin of bruit

1400-50; late Middle English (noun) Anglo-French, Old French, noun use of past participle of bruire to roar Vulgar Latin *brūgere, a conflation of Latin rūgīre to bellow and Vulgar Latin *bra

Examples for bruit

This that my brethren report may well be true, and yet I take no shame in the bruit or “fama.”

There was no headache and the man himself did not notice the bruit.

The same sound can be produced by shaking the patient (bruit de glou-glou).

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.

The Arrowes of Mosco at the first made them pause upon the matter, thinking by his bruit and skipping, there were many Salvages.

The bruit revived, which had broken out a year before—that the house was haunted.

The arrows of Mosco at the first made them pause upon the matter, thinking by his bruit and skipping, there were many savages.

By this doing the King heard the common brute (bruit) of himself.

They bruit of wars—that thunder heard in dreams; Huge insurrections, and dynastic changes Resolved in blood.

For bruit of the advance of the Saxon troops was in every mouth, though no one knew anything for certain.

Word Value for bruit
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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