Definitions for broods

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Spelling: [brood]

IPA: /brud/

Broods is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in broods (bdoors).

Definitions for broods

noun

1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
2. a breed, species, group, or kind:

adjective

1. kept for breeding:

Verb phrases

1. brood above/over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene:

verb (used with object)

1. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
2. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
3. to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:

verb (used without object)

1. to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
2. to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on).

Origin of broods

before 1000; Middle English; Old English brōd; cognate with Dutch broed, German Brut. See breed

Examples for broods

An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third.

The key is how much we can brood, and what is meant by brooding—is it to daydream, or is it to agonize over every detail?

The Atlantic explains one rough part of being a 17-year brood: developers often turn forests into cities in far less time.

And were you not, for your audacity, left to brood ten days and nights in gaol?

It is well to be prepared for it, but it is ill to brood over a fancied future of evil.

She fussed around like any other old hen who had in charge a brood of ducks.

Which is a question that French nationalists continue to brood about.

Verville has sworn that there shall be one less of the Italian brood.

Women were like she wolves for greed when they had a brood of whelps.

This year's brood II cicadas are currently appearing on the East Coast (although not quite with the drama we initially expected).