Brood
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English
Noun
Brood (plural Broods)- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- The children in one family.
Verb
Brood (third-person singular simple present Broods, present participle Brooding, simple past and past participle Brooded)
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect.
- (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length.
Adjectives for Brood
callow; straggling; lowering; hideous; unmanageable; erring; enormous; hapless late-begotten; human; successive; spurious; shameful; dusky; hateful; writhing; silver bastard; erratic; gorgeous; infernal; venomous; boreal; heavenly; noisy; viperous.
Verbs for Brood
bring forth—; cherish—; cultivate—; exhibit—; gather—; give birth to—; hatch—; hover over—; incubate—; mother—; nest—; nourish—; nurse—; nurture—; orphan—; rear—; select—; tend—; tolerate—; warm—; —clucks; —follows; —originates from; frequent—; haunt—; pass over—; splash in—; swell—; wade in—; —babbles; — bubbles; —bursts forth; —chatters; —dances; —flows on; —frolics; —groans; —gurgles; —gushes;ladle—; sip—; spoon—; strain—; test—; —murmurs; —races along; —rambles; —ranges; —sings; —swells; — whirls.
Adverbs for Brood
solitarily; somberly; vacantly; enviously; mournfully; reverently; haplessly; humanly; bitterly; maternally; superstitiously; fruitlessly; drearily; despondently.
Synonyms
Also see flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin.
Thesaurus
agonize, animal kingdom, be abstracted, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, blood, breed, carry, carry young, chew the cud, children, clan, class, clock, clutch, consider, contemplate, cover, debate, deliberate, deme, descendants, descent, despair, despond, digest, family, farrow, folk, folks, fret, fruit, fry, gens, gestate, get, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hatch, hearth, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, incubate, inheritors, introspect, issue, kids, kind, line, lineage, litter, little ones, matriclan, meditate, menage, mope, muse, muse on, muse over, nation, nest, new generation, offspring, order, patriclan, people, perpend, phratry, phyle, pine, plant kingdom, play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, posterity, pout, progeniture, progeny, race, reflect, rising generation, ruminate, ruminate over, seed, sept, set, sit, sons, spat, spawn, species, speculate, stem, stirps, stock, strain, study, succession, sulk, totem, toy with, treasures, tribe, weigh, worry, young, younglings, youngsters
