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   • [intransitive, transitive] brood (something) if a bird broods, or broods its eggs, it sits on the eggs in order to hatch them (= make the young come out of them) Definition of brood verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   • Use brood in a sentence. A mother hen and her brood of baby chicks. noun. The definition of brood is the offspring or children in a family. An example of brood is baby chicks all mothered by the same hen.

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   What is the meaning of brooding?

   • (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs. To protect. Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs. (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length.

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   What is an example of a brood?

   • A mother hen and her brood of baby chicks. The definition of brood is the offspring or children in a family. An example of brood is baby chicks all mothered by the same hen. Brood means to sit on eggs, protect babies or to worry. An example of brood is a mom sitting up worrying about her child.

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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. takes their brood to church every Sunday. brood. 2 of 3.

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   Check pronunciation: brood. Definition of brood verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day. Compare. sulk verb disapproving. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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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. verb (used with object) to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.

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   to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day. Compare. sulk verb disapproving. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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   noun. 1. offspring, young, issue, breed, infants, clutch, hatch, litter, chicks, progeny The last brood of the elderly pair was hatched. 2. children, family, offspring, progeny, nearest and dearest, flesh and blood She flew to the defence of her brood. verb.

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   Brood Definition. bro͝od. brooded, brooding, broods. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Verb. Noun. Adjective. Filter. noun. broods. The offspring, or a family of offspring, of animals; esp., a group of birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for together. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.