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brooded

Meaning

of Brood

Source: Webster's dictionary

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She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike. Jack Kerouac

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. Stephen King

The 2nd of April (1891) at 9:45 a. m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years. Max Ernst

The trodden worms, which had so long writhed under the iron heel of the oppressor, were turning at last. The smouldering fire of discontent was shooting out tongues of flame here and there. The sore stricken, who had brooded in sullen anger over their wrongs, were rising to strike in their turn. Joseph Arch

Altricial chicks need help thermoregulating and must be brooded for longer than precocial chicks. Source: Internet

The Avengers’ resident alpha jock has come a long way since Kenneth Branagh’s (2011), in which Chris Hemsworth tossed his beautiful blond man-mane and brooded about his place in the Norse pantheon. Source: Internet

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