Noun

• S: (n) brook, creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)) "the creek dried up every summer"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• has instance
• S: (n) Bull Run (a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War)
• S: (n) 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)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

Verb

• S: (v) digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up (put up with something or somebody unpleasant) "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"