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Etymology 1

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    FromMiddle Englishbrouken(“to use, enjoy”), fromOld Englishbrūcan(“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), fromProto-West Germanic*brūkan, fromProto-Germanic*brūkaną(“to enjoy, use”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰruHg-(“to enjoy”).

    Cognate withSaterland Frisianbruke(“to need”),Dutchbruiken(“to use”),German Low Germanbruken(“to need”),Germanbrauchen(“to need”),Swedishbruka(“to use”),Icelandicbrúka(“to use”).

    Verb

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    brook (third-person singular simple presentbrooks,present participlebrooking,simple past and past participlebrooked)

    1. (transitive, formal, chiefly in the negative) Tobear;endure;support;put up with;tolerate.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:tolerate
      brook no refusal
      I will notbrook any disobedience.
      I willbrook no impertinence.
      • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume I, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page22:
        how shall Ibrook 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?
      • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 6, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
        But Sophia's mother was not the woman tobrook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
      • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding,Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing,→ISBN, page104:
        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 tobrook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
      • 2018,Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 13, inThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
        The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability thatbrook no impediment.
      • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, inThe A.V. Club‎[1], archived fromthe original on22 May 2019:
        The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberatorsbrooks no resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
      • 2022 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “We Have Never Been Here Before”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN:
        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 Putinbrooks little dissent.
    2. (transitive, now chiefly Scotland) Toenjoy theuse of;make use of;profit by; to use, enjoy,possess, orhold.
      Synonyms:apply,employ,utilize
    3. (transitive, obsolete) Toearn;deserve.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:deserve
    Derived terms
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    Translations
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    tolerate—seetolerate

    Etymology 2

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      FromMiddle Englishbrook, fromOld Englishbrōc(“brook; stream; torrent”), fromProto-West Germanic*brōk(“stream”).

      A brook at Whitefield in Greater Manchester, England.

      Noun

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      brook (pluralbrooks)

      2. (chiefly Northeastern US) A body of runningwater smaller than ariver; a smallstream.
      3. (Sussex, Kent) Awater meadow.
      4. (Sussex, Kent, in theplural) Low,marshy ground.
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      Common nouns
      Proper nouns
      Translations
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      a small stream
      meadow, march

      References

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      • “brook”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
      1. ^Walker, John (1791), “Brook”, inA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] ,London: G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon […] and T.Cadell,→OCLC,page123, column 2 of 2.

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      Scots

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      Etymology

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      FromMiddle Englishbro(o)ken(“to use, enjoy, digest”), fromOld Englishbrūcan(“to use, enjoy”). See alsobrouk.

      Verb

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      tae brook

      1. Toenjoy; topossess; to haveuse orowndom of.
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