📖 Definitions of "Brooding"
verb
- 1
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
"In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs."
- 2
To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
"Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs."
- 3
(typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
"He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome."
- 4
To be bred.
noun
- 1
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
adjective
- 1
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
"A brooding hen can be aggressive."
- 2
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
"You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep."
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