brooding

brood /bru:d/
  • danh từ
    • lứa, ổ (gà con, chim con...)
      • a brood of chicken: một lứa ga con
    • đoàn, bầy, lũ (người, súc vật)
    • con cái, lũ con
    • nội động từ
      • ấp (gà)
      • suy nghĩ ủ ê, nghiền ngẫm
        • to brood over one's misfortunes: nghiên ngẫm về sự bất hạnh của mình
      • bao trùm, bao phủ (mây đen, màn đêm, bóng tối, sự yên lặng...)

    Xem thêm: incubation, pensiveness, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, dwell, hover, loom, bulk large, sulk, pout, grizzle, stew, hatch, cover, incubate



    brooding

    Từ điển WordNet

      n.

    • sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; incubation
    • persistent morbid meditation on a problem; pensiveness

      n.

    • the young of an animal cared for at one time

      v.

    • think moodily or anxiously about something; dwell
    • hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; hover, loom, bulk large

      The terrible vision brooded over her all day long

    • be in a huff and display one's displeasure; sulk, pout

      She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

    • be in a huff; be silent or sullen; grizzle, stew
    • sit on (eggs); hatch, cover, incubate

      Birds brood

      The female covers the eggs

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    broods|brooded|brooding
    syn.: consider contemplate meditate ponder reflect study