Synonyms:
brook, creek
Meaning: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
digest, endure, stick_out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put_up
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
He cannot brook interference.
He cannot brook interference.
A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little noise.
"We're going to slide on the brook below the cornfield."
Its tree grew tall, catching steam off the water. A brook was born.
The prince got up at once and went to a brook which he heard gurgling near at hand.
But great as was his genius, still greater was his vanity, and he could brook no rival.
"Brother, I pray you, do not drink of this brook; you will be changed into a wolf, and devour me."
"Hun-he!" exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.
Behind the hotel, and across the brawling brook, was another level-topped, wooded range exactly like it.