Brood - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
verb
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing (syn: hover, loom)
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen (syn: grizzle, stew)
- sit on (eggs) (syn: cover, hatch, incubate)
Extra examples
Mrs. Smith took her brood to church every Sunday.
He brooded over his mistake.
After the argument, she sat in her bedroom, brooding.
A widow with a brood of daughters.
It's no good brooding about your troubles.
Sandra has been brooding over that boy for too long.
Don't sit at home brooding all day.
There's no point brooding over it - she's gone.
Mary has a whole brood of grandchildren.
Why brood on how it happened?
The terrible vision brooded over her all day long
Birds brood
...a brood of comely children that any parent would be proud to claim...
...a story about a crumbling mansion infested with a brood of imps...
...a notorious 17th-century libertine who supposedly left a brood of whoresons across the breadth of England...
Word forms
I/you/we/they: brood
he/she/it: broods
present participle: brooding
past tense: brooded
past participle: brooded
singular: brood
plural: broods
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