to brood
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7.0
- verb
- /bruːd/
:
cernirse sobre
- The storm clouds continued to brood ominously over the valley, casting an eerie shadow.
Examples
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The cloud was supposed to move on, but it brooded there and increased.
Fiction book (1995) -
This fantastic farm... ...was ever watched by Dr. T.J. Eckleburg... ...a forgotten oculist whose eyes brooded over it all... ...like the eyes... ...of God.
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When he cut certain programs, I brooded: was I really that mean, that selfish?
Fiction book (1995) -
In the far shadows, we suddenly sense another brooding presence.
Fiction book (1996) -
The third day began in the same way as the two before, shadowed, still, and brooding.
Fiction book (1992) -
The noise had ceased upon their entrance, and a deathly, listening silence brooded over the ruined hall.
Fiction book (1999) -
The cliffs where it was said the lady often walked were stark and barren under a brooding sky.
Fiction book (2000) -
And there is always Mount Aetna, brooding over Claudia's hesitant.
Academic text (1994) -
From the heights, the city seemed placid, lifeless; the black towers of the Wankhmen brooded over the water.
Fiction book (1993) -
... the low hills of Lokhvitsa, brooding at nightfall, the steep banks of the river Dnieper, the grumble of distant cannonade.
Fiction book (2002)
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Etymology
Brood (to hang over) comes from the same image of 'sitting over' used for birds and eggs, so people began to use it when something dark or tense seems to sit above a place. That's why when a feeling or clouds brood over a scene, they seem to wait there like a heavy, watching presence.