ALL meanings of brood
brood
B b - countable noun brood A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. 3
- countable noun brood You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. 3
- verb brood If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. 3
- noun brood a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching 3
- noun brood all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously 3
- noun brood a group of a particular kind; breed 3
- noun brood kept for breeding 3
- verb brood to sit on or hatch (eggs) 3
- verb brood to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings 3
- verb brood to ponder morbidly or persistently 3
- noun brood the offspring, or a family of offspring, of animals; esp., a group of birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for together 3
- noun brood all the children in a family 3
- noun brood a group of a particular breed or kind 3
- verb transitive brood to sit on and hatch (eggs) 3
- verb transitive brood to hover over or protect (offspring, etc.) with or as with wings 3
- verb transitive brood to ponder in a troubled or morbid way 3
- intransitive verb brood to brood eggs or offspring 3
- intransitive verb brood to keep thinking about something in a distressed or troubled way; worry 3
- intransitive verb brood to hover or loom; hang low 3
- noun brood baby birds 1
- intransitive verb brood hatch eggs 1
- transitive verb brood sit on: eggs 1
- intransitive verb brood worry 1
- intransitive verb brood children: protect 1
- noun brood a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. 1
- adjective brood for breeding 1
- noun brood a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. 1
- noun brood children 1
- verb with object brood to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate. 1
- noun brood breed, type 1
- verb with object brood (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body. 1
- transitive verb brood bird: cover babies with wings 1
- verb with object brood to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem. 1
- verb without object brood to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird. 1
- verb without object brood to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on). 1
- adjective brood kept for breeding: a brood hen. 1
- noun brood The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. 0
- noun brood (Uncountable Noun) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. 0
- noun brood The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. 0
- noun brood The children in one family. 0
- noun brood That which is bred or produced; breed; species. 0
- noun brood (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. 0
- verb brood (Transitive Verb) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. 0
- verb brood (Transitive Verb) To protect. 0
- verb brood (Intransitive Verb) To dwell upon moodily and at length. 0