Synonym: consider, contemplate, meditate, ponder, reflect, study. Similar words: brook, brooch, goody-goody, roof, room, troop, crook, droop. Meaning: [bruːd] 
n. the young of an animal cared for at one time. v. 1. think moodily or anxiously about something 2. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing 3. be in a huff and display one's displeasure 4. be in a huff; be silent or sullen 5. sit on (eggs).
n. the young of an animal cared for at one time. v. 1. think moodily or anxiously about something 2. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing 3. be in a huff and display one's displeasure 4. be in a huff; be silent or sullen 5. sit on (eggs). 
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31 Recession is biting at Softwright Systems, but Nick Durrant has no time to brood over it.
32 The proper function of woman was to raise a brood much larger than women had wanted since before 1914.
33 I wondered, watching him brood over the row of charts.
34 The drawback was his rather dowdy wife and their increasing brood of children, an imposition to be endured.
35 They force the reader to slow down, to dwell or brood on what is happening.
36 The breeding tank Without doubt the water the brood fish are placed in is a vital factor in obtaining a spawning.
37 The females lay eggs in early summer and carry them around in a special brood pouch on the underside of the thorax.
38 Many long nights he would brood in his tower, and soon he was turned stoop-shouldered and prematurely old by his duties.
39 In species that forage inshore, clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances.
40 It takes at least an hour to get the whole brood ready to go to school.
41 It seems that the genuine offspring might gain some protection by becoming part of an enlarged brood.
42 In addition to certain species of cuckoo, there are about 30 species of birds worldwide that are also brood parasites.
43 Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare.
44 How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wing.
45 Brood parasitic birds are becoming favoured examples in studies of coevolution.
46 His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans.
47 Blackbirds have raised a brood in the lean-to where we keep the logs.
48 He had been the largest of the brood, always alert and playing.
49 The youngest bees clean out the cells and nurse the brood.
50 As well as looking like their host's young, the chicks of some brood parasites also sound like them.
51 She had nothing to do but brood and get mad.
52 Do not overfeed, only place in the tank enough brine shrimp to match the size of the brood.
53 The struggling brooder finally releases his brood.
54 You seem to brood over things.
55 It's a time for hens to brood.
56 These beetles make sausage-shaped brood chambers along the tunnels.
57 Speak out. Don't just brood over things.
58 Second brood this year for this Pahang Gold brooder.
59 He brood on his failure.
60 Clyde himself did not brood over the matter.