Verb

1. to echo
   • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,

     And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

     Re-speaking earthly thunder.

2. to spread or disseminate a rumour etc.
   • 1590, Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia,

     There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld,

     Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.

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