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abrook

verb
/əˈbɹʊk/US

Etymology

From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).

  1. derived from *bʰruHg-✻ — “to enjoy”
  2. inherited from *brūkaną✻ — “to enjoy, use”
  3. inherited from *brūkan✻
  4. inherited from brūcan — “to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”
  5. inherited from brouken — “to use, enjoy”
  6. prefixed as abrook — “a + brook”

Definitions

  1. To brook

    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, / […]

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