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say it: brood
brood is a verb and noun meaning "think moodily or anxiously about something". It is pronounced /ˈbɹud/ — brood. It carries 6 recorded senses.
hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
“The terrible vision brooded over her all day long”
the young of an animal cared for at one time
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.