brook

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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
    brookno refusal
    I will notbrookany disobedience.
    I willbrookno impertinence.
    • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon],chapter II, inFrancesca Carrara.[…],volume I, London:Richard Bentley,[…],(successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page22:
      how shall Ibrookto 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 tobrookdefiance. 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 tobrookthe 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 thatbrookno impediment.
    • 2019May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, inThe A.V. Club‎[1],archived fromthe originalon22 May 2019:
      The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberatorsbrooksno resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
    • 2022February 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 Putinbrookslittle dissent.
  2. (transitive,now chieflyScotland)Toenjoytheuseof;make use of;profitby; to use, enjoy,possess,orhold.
    Synonyms:apply,employ,utilize
  3. (transitive,obsolete)Toearn;deserve.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:deserve
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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brook(pluralbrooks)

  2. A body of runningwatersmaller than ariver;a smallstream.
  3. (Sussex,Kent)Awater meadow.
  4. (Sussex,Kent,in theplural)Low,marshyground.
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References

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  • “brook”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^“Brook”inJohn Walker,A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary[…],London: Sold by G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon,Paternoſter Row; and T.Cadell,in the Strand, 1791,→OCLC,page 123, column 2.

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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 haveuseorowndomof.
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