brood

Definition

  • noun: a group of young birds (such as chickens) that were all born at the same time
  • noun: the young of an animal or a family of young
  • verb: to think a lot about something in an unhappy way
  • verb: to sit on or incubate (eggs)
  • synonyms: hatch, offspring, progeny

Examples

  • After the argument, she sat in her bedroom, 'brooding'.

  • Mrs. Smith took her 'brood' to church every Sunday.

  • He 'brooded' over/about/on his mistake.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Stay in King's Landing as my honored guest. And when you return to Braavos, I swear to you, my debt will be paid in full. I came down here to brood over my failure to predict the Greyjoy attack. You're making it difficult. You look a lot better brooding than I do. You make me feel like I'm failing (..)
    2017 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: The Queen's Justice Season: 7 Episode 3
  • (..) Stannis left the castle unoccupied, and that's where she was born. Enemies to the east. Enemies to the south... Ellaria Sand and her brood of bitches. Enemies to the west... Olenna, the old cunt. Another traitor. Enemies to the north. Ned Stark's bastard has been named King in the North (..)
    2017 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: Dragonstone Season: 7 Episode 1
  • (..) was not like madness But yet do I believe the origin and commencement of this grief springs from neglected love There's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood And I do fear the hatch and the disclose will be some danger How now, my good lord? we heard it all (..)
    2015 Hamlet