brook
verb/brʊk/
/brʊk/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they brook | /brʊk/ /brʊk/ |
| he / she / it brooks | /brʊks/ /brʊks/ |
| past simple brooked | /brʊkt/ /brʊkt/ |
| past participle brooked | /brʊkt/ /brʊkt/ |
| -ing form brooking | /ˈbrʊkɪŋ/ /ˈbrʊkɪŋ/ |
- not brook something/not brook somebody doing something/brook no…to not allow something
- The tone in his voice brooked no argument.
- She would brook no criticism of her son.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBrook is used with these nouns as the object:- dissent
- opposition
Word Originverb Old English brūcan ‘use, possess’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th cent., a figurative use of an earlier sense ‘digest, stomach’.
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