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"brook" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often creek (5 letters).
Definitions
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Word origin
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).
Used in a sentence
“brook no refusal”
“I will not brook any disobedience.”
“I will brook no impertinence.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Narrow flowing stream”5 letters
02“Tolerate, as behavior”5 letters
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