BROOK Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈbru̇k

Definition of brook

as in creek

a natural body of running water smaller than a river there are tiny fish and frogs in that brook

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verb

as in to tolerate

to put up with (something painful or difficult) I will not brook insults from my own employees

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Recent Examples of brook

Noun

French doors open onto simple gardens and wildflower meadows that slope toward a picturesque brook. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2026 Temescal Gateway Park is a 141-acre expanse in Pacific Palisades that features a babbling brook, oak and sycamore canyons and trails that zigzag up the mountains, providing views of the Pacific Ocean and its coastline. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Verb

But both men were ruthless in centralizing political control, brooking no dissent and crushing civil liberties, like free speech. — Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025 The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brook

Recent Examples of Synonyms for brook

Noun

The trailhead was twenty minutes up a rutted jeep track, through a creek and a pine forest.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The couple remembered going up and down the creek several times looking in the hopes of finding him when he was reported missing.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of creek

Verb

Other individuals simply need help learning to tolerate the discomfort of seeing trypophobic images.

— Gabriela Galvin, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
No more broken promises, rampant corruption, or tolerating an elite class living in luxury while the citizens are ignored.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of tolerate

Verb

The Ukrainian capital endured a noisy night as 21 ballistic missiles came in three waves, Zelenskyy said, smashing apartment buildings, energy facilities, a railway station and the Kyiv subway system, shopping malls and businesses.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Lebanon endured an intense civil war.

— Shy Clara Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of endure

Verb

Allen took only two dribbles — one before midcourt and one after — gathered his feet, and pulled up from the left side of the arc.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
Revell said that no arrests had yet been made, nor anyone taken into custody, but that police believed one shooter was involved.

— Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of take

Verb

Seventy-one percent also doubt that his village cooperatives policy—which plans to establish hubs in roughly 80,000 communities to handle basic-goods distribution, savings, and other rural services—would succeed.

— Jay Ganglani, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
The case remains under investigation and is being handled by the Sheriff’s Department Homicide Division, according to Arcadia police.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of handle

Verb

This year, only one of the six laureates was born in the United States.

— Mattanjah de Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The meaning is largely in the emotion and intelligence Lily brings to bear upon her work, the process, the insistent intertwining of her creativity and her becoming.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026

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