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brood  (brd)

n.

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother. See Synonyms at flock¹.

2. The children in one family.

v. brood·ed, brood·ing, broods

v.tr.

1. To sit on or hatch (eggs).

2. To protect (young) by or as if by covering with the wings.

v.intr.

1. To sit on or hatch eggs.

2. To hover envelopingly; loom.

3.

a. To be deep in thought; meditate.

b. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry: brooded over the insult for several days.

c. To be depressed.

adj.

Kept for breeding: a brood hen.

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[Middle English, from Old English brd; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]

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brooding·ly adv.

Synonyms: brood, dwell, fret¹, mope, stew, worry
These verbs mean to turn over in the mind moodily and at length: brooding about his decline in popularity; dwelled on her defeat; fretted over the loss of his job; moping about his illness; stewing over her upcoming trial; worrying about the unpaid bills. See Also Synonyms at flock¹.

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brood

Noun

1. a number of young animals, esp. birds, produced at one hatching

2. all the children in a family: often used jokingly

Verb

1. (of a bird) to sit on or hatch eggs

2. to think long and unhappily about something: he brooded on his failure to avert the confrontation [Old English brōd]

brooding nadj

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Brood the young of animals or of birds, hatched or reared at the same time or from the same dam. See also aerie, breed, fry.

Examples: brood of birds, 1530; of blackgame, 1805; of smallboats; of chess players [modern pun on to brood—Lipton, 1970]; of chicken, 1611; of daughters, 1896; of ducks, 1711; of eels, 1558; of eagles; of eggs; of folly, 1632; of game; of grouse; of guilty wishes, 1863; of hawks; of heath fowl, 1805; of hens, 1486; of kittens; of lies, 1798; of oysters [in second year], 1862; of petty despots, 1867; of poisons, 1719; of presbyterians, 1706; of salmon, 1389; of serpents, 1697; of silkworms, 1760; of time, 1597.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	brood - the young of an animal cared for at one time animal group - a group of animals clutch - a number of birds hatched at the same time
Verb	1.	brood - think moodily or anxiously about something dwell worry, care - be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"
	2.	brood - hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" bulk large, loom, hover hang - be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive; "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her" eclipse, overshadow, dominate - be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
	3.	brood - be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" pout, sulk grizzle, stew, brood - be in a huff; be silent or sullen
	4.	brood - be in a huff; be silent or sullen grizzle, stew pout, sulk, brood - be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
	5.	brood - sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" incubate, hatch, cover procreate, reproduce, multiply - have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" hatch - emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch" breed, cover - copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"

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brood

noun 1. offspring, young, issue, breed, infants, clutch, hatch, litter, chicks, progeny

noun 2. children, family, offspring, progeny, nearest and dearest, flesh and blood, ainga N.Z.

verb 3. think, obsess, muse, ponder, fret, meditate, agonize, mull over, mope, ruminate, eat your heart out, dwell upon, repine

Translations

brood [bruːd] n → camada, cría (= children); progenie f

vi [hen] → empollar;

to brood over → dar vueltas a, rumiar

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brood [bruːd] n → couvée f

vi [hen, storm] → couver; [person] → méditer (sombrement), ruminer

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brood [bruːd] n → Brut f

vi (hen) → brüten;

(person) → grübeln

brood on vt fus → nachgrübeln über +acc

brood over vt fus = brood on

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brood [bruːd] n → covata

vi [hen] → covare; [person] → rimuginare

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brood

v brood [bruːd]

1 (of birds) to sit on eggs. broei تَرْخُمُ ، تَحْضِنُ (الدَّجاجةبَيْضَها للتَّفْقيس) мътя sedět na vejcích ruge brüten κλωσώ empollar hauduma روی تخم خوابیدن hautoa couver לִדגוֹר अंडे सेना sjediti na jajima költ mengeram covare 卵を抱く 알을 품다 perėti perēt mengeram broeden ruge wysiadywać chocar a cloci высиживать sedieť na vajciach valiti ležati na jajima ruva กกไข่ kuluçkaya yatmak 孵蛋 висиджувати انڈوں پر بیٹھنا ấp trứng 孵蛋

2 to think (about something) anxiously for some time There's no point in brooding about what happened. peins, mymer, knies يُفَكِّرُ بِقَلَق، يَسْتَسْلِمُ للكآبَه замислям се dumat ruge; gruble brüten αναλογίζομαι με στενοχώρια rumiar, dar vueltas juurdlema غصه خوردن hautoa ruminer (sur) לְהַרהֵר עַל चिन्ता करना mozgati tűnődik vmin bermurung rimuginare 考え込む 곰곰이 생각하다 svarstyti, sukti galvą pārdomāt memikir-mikirkan tobben sture rozmyślać cismar a se (tot) gândi (la) размышлять dumať tuhtati mozgati grubbla ครุ่นคิด kara kara düşünmek, arpacı kumrusu gibi düşünmek 盤算，沈思 обмірковувати کسی چیز کے بارے میں گہری سوچ میں پڑنا nghiền ngẫm 盘算，沉思

n

the number of young hatched at one time. uitbroei عَدَدُ الصِّغار люпило mláďata (z jedné snůšky) kuld; flok die Brut κλωσόπουλα που εκκολάφθηκαν μαζί nidada, camada pesakond جوجه های همزاد pesue nichée קְבוּצַת אֶפְרוֹחִים बच्चे leglo fészekalja jumlah telur (eraman) yang menetas covata, nidiata １かえりのひな 한 배의 병아리 vada perējums kuantiti anak-anak yang menetas broedsel ungeflokk/-skokk, kull, avkom wyląg ninhada pui (clociţi) выводок mláďatá naraz narodené, vrh zarod nakot kull กลุ่มลูกไก่ที่เกิดพร้อมกัน kuş yavruları 一窩小雞 виводок انڈوی میں سے بچے نکنے کی تعداد lứa 一窝小鸡