brook
English Thesaurus
1. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) (noun.object)
hypernym | : | stream, watercourse, |
definition | : | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth (noun.object) |
hyponym | : | brooklet, |
definition | : | a small brook (noun.object) |
instance hyponym | : | bull run, |
definition | : | a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War (noun.location) |
instance hyponym | : | aegospotami, aegospotamos, |
definition | : | a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War (noun.object) |
2. put up with something or somebody unpleasant (verb.cognition)
hyponym | : | bear up, |
definition | : | endure cheerfully (verb.cognition) |
hyponym | : | take lying down, |
definition | : | suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively (verb.cognition) |
hyponym | : | take a joke, |
definition | : | listen to a joke at one's own expense (verb.cognition) |
hyponym | : | sit out, |
definition | : | endure to the end (verb.cognition) |
hyponym | : | pay, |
definition | : | bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action (verb.cognition) |
verb group | : | suffer, |
definition | : | experience (emotional) pain (verb.emotion) |
derivation | : | abidance, |
definition | : | the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) (noun.act) |
derivation | : | tolerance, |
definition | : | the act of tolerating something (noun.act) |
derivation | : | endurance, |
definition | : | the power to withstand hardship or stress (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | kind, tolerant, |
definition | : | tolerant and forgiving under provocation (adj.all) |
derivation | : | abidance, |
definition | : | the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) (noun.act) |
derivation | : | tolerance, |
definition | : | the act of tolerating something (noun.act) |
derivation | : | endurance, |
definition | : | the power to withstand hardship or stress (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | kind, tolerant, |
definition | : | tolerant and forgiving under provocation (adj.all) |
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