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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
- 1transitive verb
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- 4transitive verb
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- 5adjective
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
- 6adjective
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
- 7intransitive 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.
- 8intransitive 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.
- 9transitive verb
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
- 10transitive verb
To cherish with care.
- 11transitive verb
To think anxiously or moodily upon.
- 12noun
the young of an animal cared for at one time
- 13verb
sit on (eggs)
"Birds brood"
"The female covers the eggs"
- 14verb
think moodily or anxiously about something
Synonyms
- 15verb
be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- 16verb
be in a huff and display one's displeasure
"She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted"
- 17verb
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
"The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
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