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| brook | |
| 1. v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. |  |
| 2. v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve. | |
| 3. v. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object). | |
| I will not brook any disobedience. I will brook no refusal. I will brook no impertinence. | |
| 4. n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. | |
| 5. n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow. | |
| 6. n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground. | |
