to brood
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6.1
- verb
- /bruːd/
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- There's no use in brooding over past mistakes; it's better to move forward.
There's the bitter, the people who hold on to anger, who brood, who even conceal their anger.
- There's the bitter, the people who hold on to anger, who brood, who even conceal their anger.
- Even if you're a guy, like just wears like make your eyes really dark and just kind of like brood off in the corner like that.
Examples
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Sparhawk and Vanion found Princess Danae brooding alone in a large chair in a darkened room.
Fiction book (1993) -
Jack, are you still brooding over Miss Lucy?
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As long as I took care not to think, this was much better than brooding around my apartment.
Fiction book (1992) -
What's the point in brooding all day?
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Brooding alone in your room, it's not healthy.
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You'd say they helped to keep you from brooding about mother.
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Stop brooding about it.
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I sat in my chair in that cold, badly lit, dirty room, brooding on my grievances.
Academic text (1997) -
In Paris, amid the sightseeing she enjoys, she broods and cherishes her memories.
Academic text (1999) -
Lulled by the sound of the pigeons on the rooftops, she sat and brooded on Fell's strange proposal.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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4.7
To think about something for a long time, usually with worry or sadness
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6.4
To stay quietly angry and keep thinking about it
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6.7
Think about something in a worried way for a long time
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Brooding
Surface Forms
Etymology
Brood (to think deeply) comes from the old idea of 'sitting over' something, like a bird sitting on its eggs to keep them warm; it is the same root as breed. So to brood about a problem is to sit with it in your mind until it grows into worry.