BROOD


Meaning of BROOD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bru:d ]

( broods, brooding, brooded)

1.

A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

2.

You can refer to someone’s young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them.

...a large brood of children.

N-COUNT : usu sing [ emphasis ]

3.

If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily.

She constantly broods about her family...

I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?

VERB : V over/on/about n , V

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