I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brood mare
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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We found Tam brooding about half way up the fence.
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He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.
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It becomes heavy work to distract Harriet from brooding about lost Elton.
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Young Oliver Rowntree, nursing his outrage, spent the summer brooding about what he could do to retaliate.
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Silent and rebellious, she brooded about how crossed their purposes now seemed.
over
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She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight - over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer.
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Looking this way at myself, I am less inclined to brood over whatever blessings may have been withheld.
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That night I woke at half-past three and lay brooding over my lack of progress.
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The Colonel's brooding over his notebooks, and lying under his stone, and standing on his plinth on Montefiore Hill.
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Airlines still brooding over what to buy may have to wait until the turn of the century.
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I wondered, watching him brood over the row of charts.
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He brooded over what he had written before submitting it for publication.
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His unfairness gave her something else to brood over .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Achilles sits in his tent, brooding over the wrongs done to him.
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Austin sat in the corner brooding and looking sorry for himself.
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Dad alternately brooded and raged, and Mum wasn't much better.
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Don't sit at home brooding about how badly you've been treated.
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Ken had little to do except sit and brood .
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The poetry spends a lot of time brooding over death.
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There's no point in brooding -- forget about her.
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You can't spend all your time at home brooding about the way he treated you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ben Nevis brooded benevolently over all.
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Instead, a burnt man kneels near a puddle, quietly brooding.
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It becomes heavy work to distract Harriet from brooding about lost Elton.
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Looking this way at myself, I am less inclined to brood over whatever blessings may have been withheld.
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Recession is biting at Softwright Systems, but Nick Durrant has no time to brood over it.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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In species that forage inshore, clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances.
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He had been the largest of the brood , always alert and playing.
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Brood size Neon Tetras are an easy fish to spawn, but it is not an easy feat to raise large broods .
■ NOUN
mare
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Now, at Deer Forest, two brood mares were all that was left from former dreams and ambitions.
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Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare .
■ VERB
raise
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Brood size Neon Tetras are an easy fish to spawn, but it is not an easy feat to raise large broods .
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Blackbirds have raised a brood in the lean-to where we keep the logs.
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The proper function of woman was to raise a brood much larger than women had wanted since before 1914.
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Those which raised a brood must be exhausted.
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Under our eaves, a pair of house martins are raising a late brood after having to rebuild a nest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It takes at least an hour to get the whole brood ready to go to school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been the largest of the brood , always alert and playing.
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His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans.
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So where were these sacrificial adopted broods coming from?
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The youngest bees clean out the cells and nurse the brood .
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This will ensure good growth in the brood .