transcription, транскрипция: [ ru:mə(r)d ]
Note: in AM, use 'rumored'
If something is rumoured to be the case, people are suggesting that it is the case, but they do not know for certain.
Her parents are rumoured to be on the verge of splitting up...
It was rumoured that he had been interned in an asylum for a while.
V-PASSIVE : be V-ed to-inf , it be V-ed that