Synonyms for brook
brʊkbrook

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. brook

   Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.

   Synonyms:
   abide, afford, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, endure, permit, put up with, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

   Antonyms:
   break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. brook

   Synonyms:
   bear, tolerate, suffer, endure, undergo, submit to, permit

   Antonyms:
   resist, resent, reject

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brook, creekverb

   a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

   "the creek dried up every summer"

   Synonyms:
   creek

2. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put upverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   bide, project, ache, hold out, run, endure, affirm, underpin, carry, stand up, assume, have, hold, last, sustain, confirm, fend, stay, weather, take over, go, jut, endorse, jut out, turn out, digest, deport, prevail, comport, set up, behave, die hard, pay, jump out, remain firm, offer, tolerate, deliver, indorse, hurt, abide, condense, raise, fend for, back up, stomach, birth, patronage, stand out, live, contribute, stick out, meet, expect, patronize, suffer, concentrate, protrude, acquit, substantiate, brave out, survive, domiciliate, get, put forward, stand, can, post, plunk for, persist, live on, have a bun in the oven, give birth, back, jump, allow, rear, lose, place upright, wear, house, contain, leap out, bear, patronise, subscribe, hold up, corroborate, provide, erect, defend, brave, put up, tin, keep going, accept, bear out, support, resist, plump for, nominate, yield, gestate, permit, conduct

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1. • Permit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. brooknoun

   Synonyms:
   rivulet, streamlet, run, RUNNEL, runlet, rill, BURN, small stream

2. brookverb

   Synonyms:
   endure, bear, abide, tolerate, suffer, put up with, submit to, bear with, take patiently or easily

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. brooknoun

   Synonyms:
   rivulet, runlet, rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, run, burn

2. brookverb

   Synonyms:
   tolerate, suffer, endure, bear

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "brook":

   creek, char, charr, ruisseau, trout, stream, speckled, fireweed, brooke, fontaine

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How to use brook in a sentence?

1. Magha:

   Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates: the brook reaches the ocean by the river?s aid.

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

3. Noel DiGerolamo:

   The swift action of his fellow officers and the excellent medical care provided here at Stony Brook saved his life, our officers put themselves in harm’s way each and every time they report to duty. Officer Racioppo’s injuries are a stark reminder of those dangers.

4. Allen Ginsberg:

   No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

5. Fred Beck:

   The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks