Abrook
//əˈbɹʊk// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To brook; to endure.
"[…] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]"
Example
More examples"[…] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]"
Etymology
From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).
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