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"

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"
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• S: (v) accept, live with, swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to) "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
• S: (v) stand for, hold still for (tolerate or bear) "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"
• S: (v) bear up (endure cheerfully) "She bore up under the enormous strain"
• S: (v) take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively) "I won't take this insult lying down"
• S: (v) take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense) "Can't you take a joke?"
• S: (v) sit out (endure to the end)
• S: (v) pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action) "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"
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