brood

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

brood [brood broods brooded brooding] verb, noun BrE [bruːd] NAmE [bruːd]
verb
1. intransitive ~ (over/on/about sth) to think a lot about sth that makes you annoyed, anxious or upset
•You're not still brooding over what he said, are you?
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) if a bird broods, or broods its eggs, it sits on the eggs in order to ↑hatch them (= make the young come out of them)
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to ↑breed. Sense 1 of the verb was originally used with an object, i.e. ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th cent.), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.

Thesaurus:
brood verb I (sometimes disapproving)
•Try not to brood about last night.
disapproving mope • • sulk • • pout •
brood/mope/sulk about sth
brood/sulk over sth

Example Bank:
•He sits in his armchair brooding on how life has let him down.
•Try not to brood about last night.
•You're not still brooding over what he said, are you?

 
noun countable + singular or plural verb
1. all the young birds or creatures that a mother produces at one time
Syn: ↑clutch
2. (humorous)a large family of children
•She grew up amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters.

Word Origin:
Old English brōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch broed and German Brut, also to ↑breed. Sense 1 of the verb was originally used with an object, i.e. ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th cent.), a figurative use of the idea of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hatch, cover, incubate, grizzle, stew, sulk, pout, hover, loom, bulk large, dwell