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brooknoun a natural body of running water smaller than a riverthere are tiny fish and frogs in that brook beck(British), bourn(or bourne), brooklet, burn(British), creek, gill(British), rill, rivulet, run(chiefly Midland), runlet, runnel, streamlet arroyo, billabong(Australian), fresh, freshet, runoffbayou, coulee, slough(also slew or slue), stream, washcanal, channel, cut, cutoff, gut, kill, millrace, millstream, race, watercourse, waterwayaffluent, branch, confluent, distributary, influent, tributary brookverbto put up with (something painful or difficult)I will not brook insults from my own employees abide, absorb, accept, bear, bide(chiefly dialect), countenance, endure, go, hack, handle, meet, pocket, stand, stick out, stomach, support, sustain, sweat out, take, tolerate, wear(British) allow, permit, suffer, swallowreconcile (to)acquiesce, agree (with or to), assent (to), capitulate, consent (to), respect, submit (to), yield (to) live with, lump (it), stand for, tough it out decline, dismiss, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, turn downcombat, contest, fight, oppose, resistavoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, evade, missabstain (from), forbear, refrain (from) before the 12th century |