Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
:
US:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive, formal, chiefly in the negative) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
- (transitive, now chiefly Scotland) To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
- (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
Substantiivi
- A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
- (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
Esimerkit
- I will not brook any disobedience. I will brook no refusal.
- But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
- 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’.
- The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
- empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[...]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | brooked | Imperfekti | brooked |
| Partisiipin preesens | brooking | Monikko | brooks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | brooks | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | brooketh (vanhahtava) |