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   brood

   /bruːd/

   noun

   • 1. a family of birds or other young animals produced at one hatching or birth: "a brood of chicks" Similar offspringyoungprogenyspawnfamilyhatchclutchnestlitterrare:progeniture
   • ▪ a large family of children: informal "she was brought up as part of a brood of eight" Similar familyhouseholdménageclantribechildrenoffspringyoungsterslittle onesprogenydescendantsissueinformal:kidssprogs
   • 2. bee or wasp larvae.

   verb

   • 1. think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried: "she had brooded over the subject a thousand times" Similar worry aboutfret aboutagonize overmope overmoon overlanguish overfeel despondent aboutgrieve oversulk abouteat one's heart out overthink aboutpondercontemplatepore overmeditate onmuse onmull overdwell onruminate on/overchew overpuzzle overweigh upturn over in one's mind
   • 2. (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them: "the male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them" Similar incubatecoverhatchsit on
   • ▪ (of a fish, frog, or invertebrate) hold (developing eggs) within the body.

   adjective

   • 1. (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding: "a brood mare"

   Word Origin Old Englishbrōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to breed. The verb was originally used with an object, i.e. ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th century), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.

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   What does brood mean?

   • The meaning of BROOD is the young of an animal or a family of young; especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time. How to use brood in a sentence. The Eggy History of Brood

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   What does it mean if someone broods over something?

   • A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. I guess everyone broods over things once in a while.

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   What is a brood hen?

   • a brood hen. The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village. Brood, litter refer to young creatures. Brood is especially applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys.

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   Is brood a verb or a noun?

   • The noun form of brood came first, and the verb, when it appeared in our language, was used to refer to the action of chickens sitting on their eggs. Eventually the verb began to be used in a figurative manner, and took on the "worriedly pondering" sense it has today.

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   1. : the young of an animal or a family of young. especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time. a hen with her brood of chicks. 2. : a group having a common nature or origin. the entire brood of chronicle plays T. S. Eliot. 3. : the children of a family.

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   noun. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. Synonyms: strain, stock, line.

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   noun. 1. a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching. 2. all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously. 3. a group of a particular kind; breed. 4. (as modifier) kept for breeding. a brood mare. verb.

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   Define brood. brood synonyms, brood pronunciation, brood translation, English dictionary definition of brood. 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.

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   A brood is a group of young born at the same time — like a brood of chicks — but your parents might use the word for you and your siblings: "We're taking the whole brood to the movies tonight." Brood is also what a chicken does when she sits on her eggs to hatch them.