0 past simple and past participle of brood
1 to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry:
She never brooded over her loss of power, or the loss of the changes or amusements which others enjoy.
He has been absent but his spirit, from wherever it may have been, has brooded over our debate.
A deep peace has brooded, not wholly undisturbed by some subterranean rumblings, over the course of our discussions.
I feel that the spirit of my pet centipede has brooded over all our proceedings to-day.
And then in one of the darkest hours that have ever brooded over us there sprang to leadership a statesman for whom history does not easily furnish a parallel.
They had brooded over it for years.
Nestlings are brooded for the first five days, after which the young are capable of maintaining a fairly constant body temperature.
The eggs usually hatch in about five weeks, and are brooded by both parents.
