Definizione monolingua

brook

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
3. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative).

   I will not brook any disobedience.

   I will brook no refusal.

   • 2005, Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Harper:

     Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.

brook (plural brooks)

1. a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
2. (Sussex, Kent) a water meadow.
3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) low, marshy ground.

Definizione dizionario brook

	ruscello
	a small stream
	Piccolo corso d'acqua.
	A small stream or rivulet, commonly swiftly flowing in rugged terrain, of lesser length and volume than a creek; especially a stream that issues directly from the ground, as from a spring or seep, or that is produced by heavy rainfall or melting snow.
	Piccolo corso d'acqua poco profondo.
	A narrow and shallow watercourse.

	tollerare
	Sopportare con panzienza qualcosa o qualcuno di sgradevole.
	To put up with something or somebody unpleasant.

	rio
	a small stream

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Altri significati:

(transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate ( '''usually used in the negative''' ).

(Sussex, Kent) a water meadow.

(transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

(transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

(Sussex, Kent, in the plural) low, marshy ground.