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brook
/bɹʊk/
verb
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
"I will not brook any disobedience. I will brook no refusal. I will brook no impertinence."
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