Brood synonyms and antonyms

bro͝od

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flock
Any group, esp. a large one, as the members of a church or the children in a family
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cover
To be enough money for.
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dwell-on
To continue to think or talk about (something or someone).
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offspring
A child or children of a parent or parents:
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young
A British distinguishing surname for the younger of two people having the same given name.
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muse
Muse is defined as to have deep thoughts or to meditate.
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issue
To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
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set
To cover, encrust, or decorate (gold, watches, etc.) with gems
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incubate
To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
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warm
To become ardent, enthusiastic, or animated:
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sit
To have a certain direction; set
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mope
To make spiritless and stupid.
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ruminate
To turn a matter over and over in the mind.
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ponder
The definition of ponder is to carefully think about something.
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repine
To fail; to wane.
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grieve
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
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fret
Wiseman
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sulk
To be sulky
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consider
To think about in order to understand or decide; ponder
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mull-over
To think deeply about something; to ponder, deliberate or ruminate.
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deliberate
To think or consider carefully and fully; esp., to consider reasons for and against a thing in order to make up one's mind
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agonize
To suffer mental anguish or worry about something:
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daydream
To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.
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reflect
(Intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
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meditate
(Intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
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worry
To manage to get (along or through) in the face of trials and difficulties
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family (related)
(Countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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herd (related)
A number of cattle, sheep, or other animals feeding, living, or being driven together
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litter (related)
A stretcher for carrying the sick or wounded
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produce (related)
(Mathematics) To extend (an area or volume) or lengthen (a line).
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think (related)
To consider or weigh an idea:
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breed
To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
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children
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clutch
To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.
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contemplate
To meditate or muse, sometimes specif. in a religious or mystical way
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dwell
Dwell is defined as to live somewhere, to remain for a time or to continue thinking, writing or speaking about a particular point.
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hatch
To come forth from the egg
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languish
(Intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. [from 15th c.]
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multitude
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nest
(Intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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pout
(Intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
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progeny
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stew
To undergo cooking in this way
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kin (related)
A relative or family member:
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thoughts (related)
To focus the attention on something moodily and at length
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progeniture
Offspring, progeny
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child (antonym)
(Computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
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seed
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cherish anxious thoughts
To nurse one's troubles
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speculate
Speculate is to buy or sell land or other investments that are high risk, with the goal to make a very big profit.
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chafe inwardly
To nurse one's troubles
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give oneself over to reflections
To nurse one's troubles
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be in a brown study
To nurse one's troubles
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eat-one-s-heart-out
(Idiomatic) To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy or longing, to grieve.
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fry
Fry is defined as to cook in hot oil.
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meditate (morbidly)
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race
Race is defined as to compete in a contest of speed.
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weep
To bring to a specified condition by weeping
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get
The young of an animal; offspring; breed
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posterity
Future generations:
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cark
(Obsolete) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
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concern (related)
To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
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grizzle
To grumble; complain
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hover
The direction of hover is to hang suspended in one spot, or to linger in or near a place.
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loom
To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.
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bulk-large
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
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introspect
(Intransitive) To engage in introspection.
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beast (related)
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nymph (related)
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chick (related)
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melancholy (related)
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not worry (antonym)
agonize over
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  • Fear seemed to brood over the peoples of Western Europe.

  • Andersson in his Lake N'gami (pp. 2 5326 9) has given a lively account of the pursuit by himself and Francis Galton of a brood of ostriches, in the course of which the male bird feigned being wounded to distract their attention from his offspring.

  • A brood mare requires plenty of exercise at a slow pace and may work, except between shafts or on a road, till the day of foaling.

  • To these things used to y listen at the time, through the mercy of God vouchsafed to me, noting them down, not on paper but in my heart, and constantly by the grace of God brood over my accurate recollections."These are priceless words, for they establish a chain of tradition (John-Polycarp-Irenaeus) which is without a parallel in early church history.

  • A special department of state looked after his brood mares and stallions.

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