Noun brook has 1 sense
- brook, creek - a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
--1 is a kind of literary critic; stream, watercourse; literary critic; stream, watercourse
--1 has particulars: Aegospotami, Aegospotamos
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Verb brook has 1 sense
- digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up - 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"
--1 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot brook Sue
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