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brooded

/ˈbruːdɪd/

/ˈbrudɪd/

broodverb

brooded

Past Simple

brooded

Past Simple

brooded

Past Participle

brooding

Gerund

/bruːd/

/brud/

Translations

He tends to brood over his past mistakes.

Он склонен размышлять о своих прошлых ошибках.

The hen will brood the eggs for three weeks.

Курица будет высиживать яйца три недели.

Additional translations

размышлять угрюмо

Definitions

To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy.

She would often brood over her past mistakes, unable to let them go.

To sit on eggs to hatch them.

The hen brooded over her eggs, keeping them warm until they hatched.

Synonyms

mull over

broodnoun

Definitions

A family of young animals, especially birds, produced at one hatching or birth.

The mother hen watched over her brood as they pecked at the ground.

The children in a family.

She took her brood to the park for a day of fun and games.

broodadjective

Definitions

Kept for breeding or relating to the rearing of young.

The farmer bought a brood mare to improve his stock.