I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I turned away from the brook and felt strangely restless.
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In Kangwon Province, there were villages with trickling brooks and houses with fruit trees in the yard.
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Just beyond the bridge, the road follows the brook filled with large black rocks and gravel.
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The brook was swollen and Hazel's ears could distinguish the deeper, smoother sound, changed since the day before.
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The real price though, has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook .
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The town brook , now covered over, became a source of energy for saw mills and other trades.
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They dwelt in brooks and springs and fountains.
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This was the last mill, the brook now wending its way towards the Severn at Minsterworth.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
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Above all, it brooked no argument .
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Quintupled sales with a workforce reduced by one-third would seem to brook no argument .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A power that brooked no query.
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Above all, it brooked no argument.
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Congress would brook no potential economic rivals in the post-war world.
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He was too near the Accomplishment of the Purpose to brook any distractions.
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In contrast local military authorities would brook no delay.
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Not that, standing square in front of her, his expression brooking no refusal, he was giving her much choice.
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Tia Carmen says in a quiet voice that does not brook contradiction.
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Who worked later than any of us on the college paper and brooked no foolishness.