brooks

/bษนสŠks/

IPA: /B R UH1 K S/

verb
  1. 1

    To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

  2. 2

    To earn; deserve.

  3. 3

    To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

    โ€œI will not brook any disobedience. โ€ƒ I will brook no refusal. โ€ƒ I will brook no impertinence.โ€

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A water meadow.

  3. 3

    (in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brook, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brooks