brook
/bɹʊk/ verb C1- To bear; endure; put up with; tolerate. · brook no refusal· I will not brook any disobedience.
- To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
He/she/it brooks · Past brooked · Past participle brooked · -ing form brooking
Verb forms
- Base form
- brook
- He/she/it
- brooks
- Past
- brooked
- Past participle
- brooked
- -ing form
- brooking
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Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover’s Lane as far as the brook.
“Gertie Pye actually went and put her milk bottle in my place in the brook yesterday.
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
She gave some to Toto, and taking a pail from the shelf she carried it down to the little brook and filled it with clear, sparkling water.
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