brood

brood is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
2. transitive verb. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
3. transitive verb. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
4. transitive verb. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
5. adjective. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
6. adjective. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
7. intransitive verb. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
8. intransitive verb. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
9. transitive verb. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
10. transitive verb. To cherish with care.
11. transitive verb. To think anxiously or moodily upon.
12. noun. the young of an animal cared for at one time
13. verb. sit on (eggs)

    "Birds brood"

    "The female covers the eggs"

    Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate

14. verb. think moodily or anxiously about something

    Synonyms: dwell

15. verb. be in a huff; be silent or sullen

    Synonyms: grizzle, stew

16. verb. be in a huff and display one's displeasure

    "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"

    Synonyms: pout, sulk

17. verb. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing

    "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"

    Synonyms: hover, loom

Synonyms

cover, hatch, incubate, dwell, grizzle, stew, pout, sulk, hover, loom

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brood:

droob

Common word forms

broods, brooded, brooder, brooding, broodless

Words from these letters

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