noun
- a number of young produced or hatched at one time; family of offspring or young.
- a breed, species, group, or kind.
verb with subject
- to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
- (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
- to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: to brood a problem.
verb without subject
- to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
- to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usu. fol. by over or on).
adjective
- kept for breeding: a brood fish.
verb phrases
- brood above/over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:
- The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
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