Word Finder - brooding

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To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

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In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.

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To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

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Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.

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(typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.

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He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.

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To be bred.

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A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.

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(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

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A brooding hen can be aggressive.

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Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

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You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.

The Darian he remembered had never been brooding or hesitant like this man.

She found him in the kitchen, brooding over a cup of coffee.

She was in a mood for brooding on the past.

This time the brows lowered to hover over brooding eyes.

Han stayed with her, not moving until two Guardians—a raven-haired man with a quick smile and a brooding blond—approached.

Lon shouted and waved the brooding Guardian over.

Darian lay on his back staring at the ceiling with brooding golden eyes, his horribly scarred body hidden under turtleneck and gloves and socks, even in the safety of his room.

The "Melancolia," numbered "1" as though intended to be the first of a series, with its brooding winged genius sitting dejectedly amidst a litter of scientific instruments and symbols, is hard to interpret in detail, but impossible not to recognize in general terms as an embodiment of the spirit of intellectual research (the student's "temperament" was supposed to be one with the melancholic), resting sadly from its labours in a mood of lassitude and defeat.

In desperation you seize the budget and dump everything out, and there in a corner is your man, serenely brooding on his own private thought, unconscious of the catastrophe which he has brought upon you.

All the men were attractive, yet brooding and dark, not unlike Victor.

When they all set down to supper, Brandon was still brooding.

The Dream of Herod traces an evolution from dark, brooding introspection to dawning effulgence.

First, she gets brooding about it, knows she's pregnant, knows Shipton is still alive and won't let her go.

The brows came down crouching over brooding dark eyes.

The brooding blond bodyguard-Guardian driving the Yukon looked at him in the rearview mirror, torn.

Leaving the park behind, we head to the brooding hilltop fortress of Amber.

She swung around to find Giddon watching Allen, his expression dark and brooding.

Pierre was beyond handsome with his brooding looks, wind-swept blond hair, black clothing, and trench coat.

Jonny flung off his coat and boots then sat in a chair in the living area, brooding.

For some years after his father's execution Govind Singh, then known as Gobind Rai, lived in retirement, brooding over the wrongs of his people and the persecutions of the fanatical Aurangzeb.

At this time Tennyson was brooding much upon the ancient world, and reading little but Milton, Homer and Virgil.

Han stayed with her, not moving until two Guardians—a raven-haired man with a quick smile and a brooding blond—approached.

The german baritone, Peter Schüler, sang with brooding intensity as he grappled with Owen's darker texts.

This is brooding music, often slow, taking time to unfold, embracing extreme dissonance as well as tender, diatonic harmonies.

Leafy hills, sleepy hamlets, with glimpses of brooding mountains beyond.

The complexion and general appearance is often defined by this, being either pale and somewhat insipid, or dark and brooding.

The group chose to use the icon of batman, a brooding psychotic loner, to represent them in this.

The same hefty frame, shaggy mane of hair and beard, brooding brows and Gallic bearing.

I guess there must have been an atmosphere of brooding menace, or something.

Rome, when it stepped into their place, did no more than safeguard its continuance; in the East Rome acted as a Hellenistic power, and if, when the legions had thundered past, the brooding East " plunged in thought again," that thought was largely directed by the Greek schoolmaster who followed in the legions' train.

The intensity of intellectual and manual application which Leonardo threw into the work is proved by the fact that he finished it within four years, in spite of all his other avocations and of those prolonged pauses of concentrated imaginative effort and intense self-critical brooding to which we have direct contemporary witness.

And then there was a terrible brooding silence which followed.

With wide-open eyes she gazed at the moonlight and the shadows, expecting every moment to see his dead face, and she felt that the silence brooding over the house and within it held her fast.

This morning he 'd been consumed with brooding and terror, but that was transmuting into something else.

The term brooding is a positive description given to wine that is robust and very complex.

While certain styles may dominate this seemingly brooding generation, it is also true that no particular style need be favored in order to best embody that which is considered emo.

A brooding male presides over the household - is he a dangerous lunatic? an escaped convict? a ghost?

Horror, sex, and violence can sometimes be important too, morphing them into brooding, adult stories.

They set the tone for each users page, whether it be merry and bright or dark and brooding and every mood in between.

The Edward Cullen doll's face sculpt captures Robert Pattinson's brooding, chiseled good looks in the Twilight movie.

He wears eyeliner to give him a brooding look.

Step outside of the traditional gold and silver family for a bubbly look that borders on brooding.

Taurus pets are strong, quiet and sometimes brooding.

In all seriousness, you'll more than likely find yourself drawn to men who appear mysterious or brooding in some way.

Gemini is the sign of duality; the other side of the Gemini personality can be brooding and sometimes even mean.

Unlike Aries who is expectedly busy at the front lines, a Scorpio is dark, brooding and internally active.

A moon in Scorpio can produce an individual who is so brooding he becomes difficult to know.

The fixed and water energies of this astrological sign fuel a brooding soul, yet one that is capable of great understanding.

As Scorpio ponders the depths of his reality, he can become isolated by his thoughts; the result is a brooding, poetic individual.

Although not as brooding as a Scorpio, Capricorns are deep thinkers and express deep concerns regarding the world around them.