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Definition of 'brook'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Verb
( en-verb)
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
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* {{quote-book|year=1922|author=(Ben Travers)
|chapter=6|title= A Cuckoo in the Nest
|passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
* 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
Synonyms
* beck
* burn
* coulee
* creek
* stream
Similar to 'brook'break, brick, bark, brisk, bork, brock, birk, brusk, brak, berk, burek, brack, bywork, bework, borek, brek
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