brook

1. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) (synset 109252316)
   "the creek dried up every summer"
   is a type of: stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
   subtypes: brooklet - a small brook
   specific instances:

   • bull run - a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War
   • aegospotami, aegospotamos - 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
   same as: creek

1. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant (synset 200670017)
   "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
   is a type of: allow, countenance, let, permit - consent to, give permission
   subtypes:

   • accept, live with, swallow - tolerate or accommodate oneself to
   • hold still for, stand for - tolerate or bear
   • bear up - endure cheerfully
   • take lying down - suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
   • take a joke - listen to a joke at one's own expense
   • sit out - endure to the end
   • pay - bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
   same as: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate
   verb group: suffer - experience (emotional) pain

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