brook
A brook is a small stream. On a hot day, you might enjoy wading in a babbling brook. As a verb, brook is a rather stuffy word for “put up with.” The lord of the manor might say, “I will brook no trespassing on my land.”
Brook is tailor-made for talking about what you won’t stand for — it’s always “brook no…” If you brook no criticism of your friend, it means you won’t let people speak ill of her. If you brook no brooks, it means you’ve developed a bizarre hatred of streams and will spend the rest of your days trying to avoid them.
Definitions of brook
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a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
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Bull Run
a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War
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Aegospotamos
a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War
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brooklet
a small brook
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type of:
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stream, watercourse
a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
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Bull Run
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put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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suffer
experience (emotional) pain
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types:
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accept, live with, swallow
tolerate or accommodate oneself to
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hold still for, stand for
tolerate or bear
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bear up
endure cheerfully
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take lying down
suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
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take a joke
listen to a joke at one’s own expense
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sit out
endure to the end
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pay
bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
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get one’s lumps, take one’s lumps
suffer the results or consequences of one’s behavior or actions
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type of:
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allow, countenance, let, permit
consent to, give permission
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suffer
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