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brook
1[brook]
noun
a small, natural stream of fresh water.
brook
2[brook]
verb (used with object)
to bear; suffer; tolerate.
I will brook no interference.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Brook
1/ ʊ /
noun
Peter ( Paul Stephen ). born 1925, British stage and film director, noted esp for his experimental work in the theatre
brook
2/ ʊ /
noun
a natural freshwater stream smaller than a river
brook
3/ ʊ /
verb
(tr; usually used with a negative) to bear; tolerate
Other 51Թ Forms
- brookless adjective
- brooklike adjective
- brookable adjective
- ˈǴǰ첹 adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of brook1
Origin of brook2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of brook1
Origin of brook2
Example Sentences
“It’s like a movie set,” Bifano said, gesturing to the elegant barn, brook, bridges and all the plants that tie them together.
A pedigree livestock farmer plans to take legal action against East Midlands Airport, claiming a leaking pipe polluted the brook that runs through his rented grazing land.
I hear the drone of Tibetan bowls mixing with an insect chorus, scattered yawns, and what sounds like a flowing brook.
Henry will brook no defiance, no matter how allusive, and so Cromwell must die under the shadow of an axe.
He told how his father, a police chief in small-town Iowa, was fired because he stood up to the local good-old-boy network, refusing, on principle, to brook their petty tyrannies.
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