brook

Jennifer WeinerのFly Away Homeを読んでいます。
She tapped at her assistant's shoulder. "I really need to stop."
Clarissa turned. Her eyes were so wide that there was white all the way around the blue-green irises. Her cheeks were flushed, and her honey-colored hair, normally smoothed into the sleekest chignon this side of the ballet barre, was sticking out in a tuft over her left ear.
"Please," she said, speaking to Derek, telling him, in a tone that brooked no discussion, what to do and where to go.
"brook" は名詞の小川の意味しか知りません。動詞ではどんな意味なのでしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: [with object and negative] Tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition): Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew
・Collins Dictionary: If someone in a position of authority will brook no interference or opposition, they will not accept any interference or opposition from others.: She'd had a plan of action, one that would brook no interference.
いつも否定形で使われるのですね。