brook

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I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I turned away from the brook and felt strangely restless.
▪ In Kangwon Province, there were villages with trickling brooks and houses with fruit trees in the yard.
▪ Just beyond the bridge, the road follows the brook filled with large black rocks and gravel.
▪ The brook was swollen and Hazel's ears could distinguish the deeper, smoother sound, changed since the day before.
▪ The real price though, has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook.
▪ The town brook, now covered over, became a source of energy for saw mills and other trades.
▪ They dwelt in brooks and springs and fountains.
▪ This was the last mill, the brook now wending its way towards the Severn at Minsterworth.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
argument
▪ Above all, it brooked no argument.
▪ Quintupled sales with a workforce reduced by one-third would seem to brook no argument.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A power that brooked no query.
▪ Above all, it brooked no argument.
▪ Congress would brook no potential economic rivals in the post-war world.
▪ He was too near the Accomplishment of the Purpose to brook any distractions.
▪ In contrast local military authorities would brook no delay.
▪ Not that, standing square in front of her, his expression brooking no refusal, he was giving her much choice.
▪ Tia Carmen says in a quiet voice that does not brook contradiction.
▪ Who worked later than any of us on the college paper and brooked no foolishness.

brook

I. brook¹ /brʊk/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[Language : Old English; Origin : broc]
a small stream:
　 ▪ a babbling brook
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THESAURUS
a small river
▪stream a small narrow river :
　 ▪ a cool mountain stream
▪brook literary a small stream :
　 ▪ There was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks.
▪creek a narrow area of sea that goes into the land, or a small river :
　 ▪ The River Fal with its many creeks was a perfect place for smugglers.
　 ▪ The kids hunted for crabs in the muddy creek.

II. brook² verb
[Language : Old English; Origin : brucan 'to use, enjoy']
not brook something/brook no something formal to not allow or accept something:
　 ▪ He would brook no criticism, even from his beloved daughter.