Antonyms for brood

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : brood

Phonetic Transcription : brud

Definition of brood

Origin : Old English brod "brood, fetus, hatchling," from Proto-Germanic *brod (cf. Middle Dutch broet, Old High German bruot, German Brut "brood"), literally "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from root *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)).

noun cluster of children
verb agonize over

Example sentences :

Women were like she wolves for greed when they had a brood of whelps.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

She fussed around like any other old hen who had in charge a brood of ducks.
Extract from : « In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories » by Robert Barr

It is well to be prepared for it, but it is ill to brood over a fancied future of evil.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

And were you not, for your audacity, left to brood ten days and nights in gaol?
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Verville has sworn that there shall be one less of the Italian brood.
Extract from : « The Suitors of Yvonne » by Raphael Sabatini

Observe who harbors any of the brood That scramble off: be sure they smart for it!
Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke

I went on selling,—now a farm, now a house, now a brood mare.
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

Rosa was her especial torment; the black sheep of the brood.
Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various

But the same source which supplied one brood may supply another.
Extract from : « Vampires of Space » by Sewell Peaslee Wright

He would have been willing to sit and brood, and wait for God to answer his prayer.
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

Synonyms for brood

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