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brood noun 1 a number of young animals, especially birds, that are produced or hatched at the same time. 2 colloq, usually humorous all the children in a family. 3 a kind, breed or race of something. 4 as adj: a said of an animal: kept for breeding • brood mare; b used for or relating to the brooding of offspring • brood-pouch. verb (brooded, brooding) intrans 1 said of a bird: to sit on eggs in order to hatch them. 2 (often brood about, on or over something) to think anxiously or resentfully about it for a period of time. brooder noun.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon brod.
brood over someone or somewhere to hang over them or it as a threat • The prospect of redundancy now broods over the town. |
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