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# brood

«brood» in Mova's school dictionary: **A family of baby birds or other young animals born at the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (brood, broods); verb (brood, broods, brooded, brooding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A family of baby birds or other young animals born at the same time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#m1)

2) (humorous) A large family of children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#m2)

3) To sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#m3)

4) To keep thinking about something that makes you unhappy or angry, in a gloomy way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, a hen broods her eggs and raises a brood of chicks. In stories, a brooding character is quiet and gloomy. A «broody» hen wants to sit on eggs; a broody person (UK informal) wants a baby.

### examples

- The hen had a brood of ten chicks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x1)
- The bird broods her eggs for two weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x2)
- Stop brooding over that argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x3)
- He sat brooding in his room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x4)
- Mrs Weasley looked after her large brood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x5)
- The ducks led their brood to the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x6)
- He is a disgrace to any brood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/#x7)

### note

Do not confuse with «brewed». Brooding is like sulking and worrying together; talking to someone often helps.

### In the corpora

- [Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.760/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.