A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).

synonym: creek.

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt^†, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss^†; lin^†, linn^†; ghyll^†, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe^†, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout.    rain, rainfall; serein^†; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology^†, hyetography^†; predominance of Aquarius^†, reign of St.    Swithin; mizzle^†, drizzle, stillicidum^†, plash; dropping etc. v.; falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.    stream, course, flux, flow, profluence^†; effluence etc. (egress) 295; defluxion^†; flowing etc. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.    spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet^†; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike^†, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.    geyser, spout, waterspout.    body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^†, hygre^†; fresh, freshet; indraught^†, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^†, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation^†.    wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma [Gr.]; beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.    [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics^†; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology^†.    irrigation etc. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti^†, mussuk^†.    ... show more

Dutch: beek, kreek, vliet
Polish: struga, strumień, ruczaj

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.

synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate ... show more.

Roget 826: be composed etc. adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and let live; take easily, take cooly^†, take in good part; aequam servare mentem [Lat.].    bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave, disregard.    tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby^†; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit etc. (yield) 725; submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.    make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity'" [Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one's countenance; check etc. 751; check oneself.    compose, appease etc. (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress etc. (restrain) 751; render insensible etc. 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability etc. 825; master one's feelings.    make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest.    calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.    be borne, be endured; go down.    ... show more

Dutch: doormaken, doorstaan, dragen, dulden, gedogen, getroosten, harden, incasseren, kampen, velen, verdragen, verduren ... show more