brook
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).
Inflected forms:
form: brooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brooked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: brook no refusal
I will not brook any disobedience.
I will brook no impertinence.
how shall I brook to be the first cause of difference between a father and son, to whom the averted look and the harsh word have been hitherto unknown?
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.
After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability that brook no impediment.
The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberators brooks no resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
On just the first day of the war, more than 1,300 protesters across Russia, many of them chanting “No to war,” were detained, The Times reported, quoting a rights group. That’s no small number in a country where Putin brooks little dissent.
gloss: To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?
The girl’s spirit would brook a husband under no such conditions: she was not minded to run forward because Pen chose to hold out the handkerchief, and her tone, in reply to Arthur, showed her determination to be independent.
gloss: To earn; deserve.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
examples: empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
gloss: A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
pos: noun
tags: Kent
Derived words: abrook
unbrookable
Common nouns
American brook char
American brook charr
babbling brook
broker
brook alder
brookie
brook lamprey
brookless
brooklet
brooklike
brooklime
brook mint
brookside
brook springfly
brook trout
brook wakerobin
brookweed
Proper nouns
Allynbrook
Anniebrook
Ashbrook
Bellbrook
Bessbrook
Blakebrook
Bonnie Brook
Boorara Brook
Bound Brook
Boyup Brook
Braybrook
Briarbrook
Broad Brook
Brookdale
Brooker
Brookfield
Brookhampton
Brookhaven
Brookhill
Brooklana
Brooklands
Brooklet
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Park
Brooksbank
Brooks Bay
Brookstead
Brook Street
Brookton
Brookvale
Brookville
Brookwater
Bullsbrook
Bybrook
By Brook
Carbrook
Carisbrook
Carrowbrook
Cherrybrook
Colbrook
Colebrook
Cranbrook
Cranebrook
Cressbrook
Cressbrook Creek
Crooked Brook
Crystalbrook
Crystal Brook
Dartbrook
Donnybrook
Eastbrook
Ellenbrook
Englesea-brook
Falbrook
Fernbrook
Fossilbrook
Gagebrook
Gembrook
Glenbrook
Glendon Brook
Gordonbrook
Grindley Brook
Hazelbrook
Henley Brook
Hester Brook
Hinchinbrook
Holbrook
Holcombe Brook
Huonbrook
Jane Brook
Kersbrook
Keysbrook
Kithbrook
Leabrook
Lennard Brook
Lethebrook
Lewinsbrook
Lower Cressbrook
Lynbrook
Marybrook
Meadowbrook
Middlebrook
Middle Brook
Middle Falbrook
Millbrook
Moonan Brook
Muswellbrook
Nanga Brook
Nectar Brook
Pickering Brook
Piesse Brook
Pipers Brook
Preston Brook
Quamby Brook
Rea Brook
Ripplebrook
Rosa Brook
Rosebrook
Rouchel Brook
Ryansbrook
Saddle Brook
Scotts Brook
Seabrook
Sedgebrook
Shannon Brook
Smith Brook
Southbrook
Southern Brook
Spencers Brook
Springbrook
Stamford Brook
Stewarts Brook
Stockton Brook
Swanbrook
Thomson Brook
Upper Brookfield
Upper Dartbrook
Wambrook
Warabrook
Westbrook
Woolbrook
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