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dɪŋ adjective
1.
preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
2.
cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere: Dusk fell on the brooding hills.
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brood (bruːd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching |
| 2. | all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously |
| 3. | a group of a particular kind; breed |
| 4. | (as modifier) kept for breeding: a brood mare |
| —vb (when intr | |
| 5. | of a bird |
| a. to sit on or hatch (eggs) | |
| b. (tr) to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings | |
| 6. | to ponder morbidly or persistently |
| [Old English brōd; related to Middle High German bruot, Dutch broed; see | |
| 'brooding | |
| —n, —adj | |
| 'broodingly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
brooding
1640s, "hovering, overhanging" (as a mother bird does her nest), from brood; meaning "that dwells moodily" first attested 1818 (in "Frankenstein").
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Medical Dictionary
brood (br&oomacr;d)
n.
See litter.
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