what does brook mean?
BROOK as NOUN
- Meaning
- a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
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- the creek dried up every summer
Hypernyms(s) brook is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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BROOK as VERB
- Meaning
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
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- 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
Hypernyms(s) brook is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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