BROOD


Meaning of BROOD in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

A ~ 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 ~ when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them.

...a large ~ of children.

N-COUNT: usu sing emphasis

3.

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

She constantly ~s about her family...

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

VERB: V over/on/about n, V

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