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brooksnounpl. of brook a natural body of running water smaller than a riverthere are tiny fish and frogs in that brook becks(British), bourns(or bournes), brooklets, burns(British), creeks, gills(British), rills, rivulets, runlets, runnels, runs(chiefly Midland), streamlets arroyos, billabongs(Australian), freshes, freshets, runoffsbayous, coulees, sloughs(also slews or slues), streams, washescanals, channels, cutoffs, cuts, guts, kills, millraces, millstreams, races, watercourses, waterwaysaffluents, branches, confluents, distributaries, influents, tributaries brooksverbpresent tense third-person singular of brookto put up with (something painful or difficult)I will not brook insults from my own employees abides, absorbs, accepts, bears, bides(chiefly dialect), countenances, endures, goes, hacks, handles, meets, pockets, stands, sticks out, stomachs, supports, sustains, sweats out, takes, tolerates, wears(British) allows, permits, suffers, swallowsreconciles (to)acquiesces, agrees (with or to), assents (to), capitulates, consents (to), respects, submits (to), yields (to) lives with, lumps (it), stands for, toughs it out declines, dismisses, refuses, rejects, repudiates, spurns, turns downcombats, contests, fights, opposes, resistsavoids, bypasses, circumvents, dodges, eludes, escapes, evades, missesabstains (from), forbears, refrains (from) |