BROOK

brook, creek

(noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); “the creek dried up every summer”

digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; “I cannot bear his constant criticism”; “The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”; “he learned to tolerate the heat”; “She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

(transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

(transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

(transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

Synonyms

• (use): apply, employ, utilize

• (earn): See also deserve

• (tolerate): See also tolerate

Etymology 2

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

(Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.

(Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Synonyms

• beck

• burn

• coulee

• creek

• stream

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Proper noun

Brook

A habitational surname for someone living by a brook.

A surname, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (“blessed”).

A male given name from surnames, variant of Brooks.

A female given name from surnames, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Source: Wiktionary


Brook, n. Etym: [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. broc; akin to D. broek, LG. brok, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]

Definition: A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] Etym: [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br, Goth. br, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]

1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.

3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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