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brook

1

[brook]

noun

  1. a small, natural stream of fresh water.



brook

2

[brook]

verb (used with object)

  1. to bear; suffer; tolerate.

    I will brook no interference.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

Brook

1

/ ʊ /

noun

  1. Peter ( Paul Stephen ). born 1925, British stage and film director, noted esp for his experimental work in the theatre

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brook

2

/ ʊ /

noun

  1. a natural freshwater stream smaller than a river

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brook

3

/ ʊ /

verb

  1. (tr; usually used with a negative) to bear; tolerate

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • brookless adjective
  • brooklike adjective
  • brookable adjective
  • ˈǴǰ첹 adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of brook1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ō stream; cognate with Dutch broek, German Bruch marsh

Origin of brook2

before 900; Middle English brouken, Old English ū; cognate with Dutch bruiken, German brauchen; akin to Gothic brukjan, Latin ڰī to enjoy
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of brook1

Old English ō ; related to Old High German bruoh swamp, Dutch broek

Origin of brook2

Old English ū ; related to Gothic ūᲹ to use, Old High German ū󲹲 , Latin ڰī to enjoy
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“It’s like a movie set,” Bifano said, gesturing to the elegant barn, brook, bridges and all the plants that tie them together.

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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.

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I hear the drone of Tibetan bowls mixing with an insect chorus, scattered yawns, and what sounds like a flowing brook.

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Henry will brook no defiance, no matter how allusive, and so Cromwell must die under the shadow of an axe.

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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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