brook
noun
a small, natural stream of fresh water.
have brooked
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present perfectof brook.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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How can his colleagues have brooked such a thing?
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
Critics say the “owner” families have brooked no challenge or contradiction and have surrounded themselves with kowtowing managers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2015
For the correction of their faults, the mother employed prayers and tears, but never threats or punishment; these, their independent spirits would not have brooked.
From The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation by A Religious of the Ursuline Community
It was his own fashion of showing a wholly involuntary sympathy of which he was secretly half-ashamed, and which he well knew Piers would have brooked in no other form.
From The Bars of Iron by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
His intolerant nature, that would never have brooked such freedom from a friend, allowed everything from one who was too insignificant to excite resentment or even reply.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
