brooding
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brood
(bro͞od)n.
1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.
2. The children in one family.
v. brood·ed, brood·ing, broods
v.intr.
1.
a. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry: brooded about his future; brooded over the insult for several days.
b. To be depressed: All he seemed to do was sit and brood.
2.
a. To sit on or hatch eggs.
b. To protect developing eggs or young.
3. To hover envelopingly; hang: Mist brooded over the moor.
v.tr.
1. To think about (something) persistently or moodily: brooded that her work might come to nothing.
2.
a. To sit on or hatch (eggs).
b. To protect (developing eggs or young).
adj.
Kept for breeding: a brood hen.
brood′ing·ly adv.
Synonyms: brood, dwell, fret1, mope, worry
These verbs mean to turn something 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; worrying about the unpaid bills.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  brooding - sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body |
| 2. | brooding - persistent morbid meditation on a problem melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness | |
| Adj. | 1. | brooding - deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; thoughtful - exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" |
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brooding
[ˈbruːdɪŋ] (literary) adj
(= ominous) [silence, atmosphere] → troublant(e)
(= thoughtful) [eyes, look] → soucieux/euse
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