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How to pronounce brood in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms grizzle, stew
Type of sulk, pout
Type Words
Synonyms bulk large, hover, loom
Type of hang
Has types eclipse, dominate, overshadow


The terrible vision brooded over her all day long.
Type Words
Synonyms dwell
Type of care, worry
Type Words
Synonyms cover, hatch, incubate
Type of procreate, reproduce, multiply
Verb group hatch, cover, breed
Derivation brooder


Birds brood.
Type Words
Synonyms pout, sulk
Has types stew, grizzle
Type Words
Type of animal group
Has types clutch

Examples of brood

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The thief obviously isn't aware of the awesome powers she and her brood possess.
From the charlotteobserver.com
It was the kind of stay that leads you to brood with Lagavulin and Bunnahabhain.
From the newsday.com
Then, though, he began to brood about beaks, islands, and the origin of species.
From the theatlantic.com
Deneuve is the curiously calm matriarch and least neurotic member of this brood.
From the time.com
Russell King's Christian camp brood is in from Springtown, north of Weatherford.
From the dallasnews.com
Raising McKenzie was unlike anything Ertel experienced with her own large brood.
From the washingtonpost.com
If you could meditate instead of brood it would be a worthwhile effort, however.
From the kansas.com
The entire Kardashian brood donned white for their famous annual Christmas card.
From the couriermail.com.au
And is the erstwhile Friends star getting her brood on with beau Justin Theroux?
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • The young of an animal cared for at one time
  • Think moodily or anxiously about something
  • Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
  • Sulk: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
  • Grizzle: be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  • Sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
  • The Brood are a race of insect-like, parasitic, extraterrestrial beings that appear in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, especially Uncanny X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, they first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #155 (March 1982).
  • In entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life of holometabolous insects. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. ...
  • The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle. It was filmed in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario. In 2004, one of its sequences was voted #78 among the "100 Scariest Movie Moments" by the Bravo Channel. ...