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adjective

brooding adj.

Worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.

Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose.

brooding adj. Good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.

Synonyms: brood, hatching.

noun

brooding n. The process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; mostly used of birds.

Synonyms: incubation.

verb

Brood v. t.

To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

To cherish with care. (R.)

To think anxiously or moodily upon. "You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne."

Brood v. i. (past & past part. brooded; pres. part. brooding)

To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. "Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave."

To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. "Brooding on unprofitable gold." "Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit." "When with downcast eyes we muse and brood."

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Etymology of 'Brooding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brooding" Quotes from Famous Books

... found himself again. Their friendship weaned him by degrees from the jaundiced view of life which Margaret's dereliction had induced. They drew him, in time, from his brooding melancholy, and through the upbuilding of the body restored him to ...

— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham

... about and went to the door. Paused. Still with that brooding dark look on his face he turned ...

— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina

... do no more than rap out an oath. Then he stood still a moment, his eyes on the window, his chin in his hand, brooding. His pride and his desire to know more of that courier's message were fighting it out again in his mind, just as they fought it out in the courtyard below. Suddenly his glance fell on her, standing there, so sweet, so frail, and so disconsolate. ...

— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

... himself, Donald fell a prey to melancholy brooding for a few brief moments, then resolutely cast the mood off his spirit. He was little given to morbid reflections. Men whose lives are daily liable to forfeit rarely are. It was characteristic of him that, in this supreme hour of peril, his chief distress was over the ...

— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams

... stands motionless as a statue, waiting patiently. The dreamily brooding look of the river, the circling of the jackdaws, and the sight of the horse make him drowsy. One hour passes, a second, and still Seryozhka does not come. The river has long been swept and a box brought to sit on, but the drunken fellow does not appear. Matvey waits and ...

— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

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