broodnoun [ C ]
uk/bruːd/us/bruːd/a group of young birds all born at the same time:
The blackbird flew back and forth to its brood.
humorous a person's young children:
Ann was at the party with her brood.
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Animal groupings
- bevy
- biomass
- colony
- covey
- drove
- eusocial
- family
- flight
- gaggle
- herd
- hive
- menagerie
- pack
- pair
- pod
- pride
- shoal
- skein
- stud
- team
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Children & babies
broodverb [ I ]
uk/bruːd/us/bruːd/to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry:
I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day.
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Continually thinking about
- absorb
- absorbed
- axe
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be hung up on sth idiom
- be wrapped up in sth/sb idiom
- devour
- fixation
- get into sb
- have an axe to grind idiom
- have sth on the brain idiom
- hobbyhorse
- mania
- nag
- obsessive
- one-track mind
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- preoccupy
- prey
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