brooding
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Definitions ofbrooding
- To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
Example: "In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs."
- To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Example: "Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs."
- (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
Example: "He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome."
- To be bred.
- A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
- (of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Example: "A brooding hen can be aggressive."
- Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Example: "You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep."
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