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brooding   (TTS Sound)

The noun brooding has 2 senses

• brooding, incubation -- (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)


• pensiveness, brooding -- (persistent morbid meditation on a problem)

The verb brood has 5 senses

• brood, dwell -- (think moodily or anxiously about something)


• brood, hover, loom, bulk large -- (hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long")


• sulk, pout, brood -- (be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted")


• grizzle, brood, stew -- (be in a huff; be silent or sullen)


• brood, hatch, cover, incubate -- (sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs")

The adj brooding has 1 sense

• brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";)