Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to brood
Participle: brooded
Gerund: brooding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | brood |
| you | brood |
| he;she;it | broods |
| we | brood |
| you | brood |
| they | brood |
Perfect
| I | have brooded |
| you | have brooded |
| he;she;it | has brooded |
| we | have brooded |
| you | have brooded |
| they | have brooded |
Past
| I | brooded |
| you | brooded |
| he;she;it | brooded |
| we | brooded |
| you | brooded |
| they | brooded |
Pluperfect
| I | had brooded |
| you | had brooded |
| he;she;it | had brooded |
| we | had brooded |
| you | had brooded |
| they | had brooded |
Future
| I | will brood |
| you | will brood |
| he;she;it | will brood |
| we | will brood |
| you | will brood |
| they | will brood |
Future Perfect
| I | will have brooded |
| you | will have brooded |
| he;she;it | will have brooded |
| we | will have brooded |
| you | will have brooded |
| they | will have brooded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | brood |
| you | brood |
| he;she;it | brood |
| we | brood |
| you | brood |
| they | brood |
Perfect
| I | have brooded |
| you | have brooded |
| he;she;it | have brooded |
| we | have brooded |
| you | have brooded |
| they | have brooded |
Imperfect
| I | brooded |
| you | brooded |
| he;she;it | brooded |
| we | brooded |
| you | brooded |
| they | brooded |
Pluperfect
| I | had brooded |
| you | had brooded |
| he;she;it | had brooded |
| we | had brooded |
| you | had brooded |
| they | had brooded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would brood |
| you | would brood |
| he;she;it | would brood |
| we | would brood |
| you | would brood |
| they | would brood |
Perfect
| I | would have brooded |
| you | would have brooded |
| he;she;it | would have brooded |
| we | would have brooded |
| you | would have brooded |
| they | would have brooded |
Imperative
| you | brood |
| we | Let's brood |
| you | brood |
Verbs conjugated like 'brood'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'brood'
blood,
broid,
brook,
broom,
abrook,
begod,
bemood,
blond,
bloody,
bloom,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make or keep a person or object safe from attack
- beshield, beward, cape for, defend, fend, guard, preserve, protect, safeguard, secure, shelter, shield, ward
- sulk
- muse, grieve, fret, ponder, mope
- incubate
- hatch, set, sit
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. brod, from P.Gmc. *brod (cf. M.Du. broet, O.H.G. bruot), lit. "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from base *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew). The verbal figurative meaning ("to incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1571, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc.
2. From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow—the shadow of _law_. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many _things_ belonging to a master,—so long as [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] yard, he dreads to re-enter the cell. When night comes, there stands the phantom in the corner. If he have the courage to stand in its place, and drive it out (he had once: being desperate ), it broods upon his bed. In the twilight, and always at the same hour, a voice calls to him by name; as the darkness thickens, his Loom begins to live; and even that, his comfort, is a hideous figure, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] The company appeared to be oppressed by the same tremendous concealments, and had as little capacity of enjoyment or light-heartedness. I never in my life did see such listless, heavy dulness as brooded over these meals: the very recollection of it weighs me down, and makes me, for the moment, wretched. Reading and writing on my knee, in our little cabin, I really dreaded the coming of the hour [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as it comes down, and always from its unfathomable grave arises that tremendous ghost of spray and mist which is never laid: which has haunted this place with the same dread solemnity since Darkness brooded on the deep, and that first flood before the Deluge—Light—came rushing on Creation at the word of God.
(American Notes for General Circulation)