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brooding
  • n  sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
  • n  persistent morbid meditation on a problem
  • v  think moodily or anxiously about something
  • v  hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
  • v  be in a huff and display one's displeasure
  • v  be in a huff; be silent or sullen
  • v  sit on (eggs)
  • s  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
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broody
  • n  a domestic hen ready to brood
  • s  physiologically ready to incubate eggs
    a broody hen
  • s  deeply or seriously thoughtful;
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