What is "brook" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does brook mean in English? Meaning of brook definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "brook" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "brook": a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

Noun

  • Meaning: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
  • Example: the creek dried up every summer
  • Synonyms: brook creek
  • Hyponyms: brooklet
  • Hypernyms: stream watercourse
  • Instance Hyponyms: aegospotami aegospotamos bull run
  • Meaning of "brook": put up with something or somebody unpleasant

    Verb

  • Meaning: put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: abide bear brook digest endure put up stand stick out stomach suffer support tolerate
  • Hyponyms: accept bear up hold still for live with pay sit out stand for swallow take a joke take lying down
  • Hypernyms: allow countenance let permit
  • Synonyms:

    rill, run, creek, burn, rivulet, watercourse, branch, river, beck, runnel, streamlet, rindle, countenance, tolerate, withstand, stomach, support, abide, bear, allow, go, take, swallow, suffer, stand, hear of, sit tight, be big, hang in, hang in there, live with, put up with,

    Antonyms:

    disapprove, surrender, refuse, reject, resist, shun, avoid, dodge, disallow, stop, hold, keep,

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    brook in English: brook
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