1 to not allow or accept something, especially a difference of opinion or intention:
3 to allow or accept something, esp. a difference of opinion or intention:
Nevertheless, in the southern portion of the basin, year-round agriculture can be practiced in various locations, where permanent springs and brooks naturally irrigate the soil.
In the study area only small patches of primary forest remained near rivers and brooks.
Most employers brooked no interference.
He declared willow pollards could be planted with great profit by the sides of brooks and rivers, but preferred coppicing as a way of obtaining long and clean stems.
The constructed realm of the head was contentious, fractious, domineering which brooked no dissent; that of the heart experienced love, affection, humanism and therefore was universalist.
Beside the brook, the blocks of flats are 5 storeys high to exploit the most attractive view.
The woman anthropomorphizes the brook, and assigning a fictive human agency to the brook soon becomes important.
The realities of modern war do not brook much choice in the matter.