All brood synonyms

verb brood

• daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
• grieve — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
• meditate — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
• sulk — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
• mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
• ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
• ponder — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
• consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
• deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
• sigh — to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
• repine — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
• despond — to lose heart or hope; become disheartened; despair
• muse — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
• reflect — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
• lament — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
• speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
• dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
• bleed — When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• mull over — to study or ruminate; ponder.
• sweat out — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
• eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.