| Pronunciation: | | brûk
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- [n] a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | abide, bear, creek, endure, put up, stand, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| | See Also: | | accept, Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, allow, bear up, countenance, hold still for, let, live with, pay, permit, sit out, stand for, stream, submit, swallow, take, take a joke, take lying down, undergo, watercourse |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Brook\, n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. br[=o]c; akin to
D. broek, LG. br[=o]k, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch
marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it
signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or
brook, as well as a marsh. See {Break}, v. t.]
A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land
of brooks of water. --Deut. viii.
7.
Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main
of waters. --Shak.
\Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brooked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Brooking}.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS.
br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G.
brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L.
frui, to enjoy. Cf. {Fruit}, {Broker}.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to
the wicked ten? --Macaulay.
3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abide, abide with, accept, adolescent stream, allow, arroyo, be big, be content with, be easy with, bear, bear with, beck, bide, blink at, bourn, braided stream, branch, brave, brooklet, burn, channel, condone, connive at, countenance, creek, crick, disregard, endure, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, go, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, hear of, ignore, indulge, judge not, kill, lazy stream, lean over backwards, listen to reason, live with, lump, lump it, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, not write off, overlook, persevere, put up with, race, racing stream, rill, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, see both sides, sike, spill stream, stand, stand for, stick, stomach, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, suffer, support, suspend judgment, sustain, swallow, take, take up with, tolerate, view with indulgence, wadi, watercourse, waterway, wink at |
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