Synonyms for brood
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : brood |
| Phonetic Transcription : brud |
Top 10 synonyms for brood Other synonyms for the word brood
- be in brown study
- begats
- chafe inwardly
- chicks
- clutch
- consider
- deliberate
- descendants
- despond
- dream
- dwell upon
- eat one's heart out
- family
- flock
- gloom
- hatch
- infants
- issue
- lament
- languish
- litter
- mull over
- muse
- ponder
- posterity
- progeniture
- progeny
- reflect
- repine
- scions
- seed
- sigh
- speculate
- stew over
- sweat out
- sweat over
- think about
- think upon
- worry
- young
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for brood
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