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US
/ˈbɹʊk/
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[ UK /bɹˈʊk/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈʊk/ ]
NOUN
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a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
the creek dried up every summer
VERB
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put up with something or somebody unpleasant
he learned to tolerate the heat
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
I cannot bear his constant criticism
How To Use brook In A Sentence
- So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
- On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game. Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
- I befriended a couple of the kids, and together we built a raft that we would row down the Dodder as far as the great waterfall in Donnybrook.
- From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
- Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy? Boing Boing
- Wellbrook was a chunky, solid man in his fifties with big bushy eyebrows. LET NOT THE DEEP
- Brooklyn itself was fine but calling 278 an expressway is a laugh. First we take Manhattan, then we..well...we go to Brooklyn.
- Brooks found the use of the word terminate very unsettling. Act of Treason
- The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
- He has also worked with symphonies and chamber groups from the Brooklyn Philharmonic to Zurich's Ensemble Fur Neue Musik.
