abrook
verbUS /əˈbɹʊk/
Etymology From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).
1
To brook; to endure.
- […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12: