sulkverbdisapproving

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to think carefully about something
considerDon't make any decisions before you've considered the matter.
contemplateHe lay in a hospital bed contemplating his future.
ponderShe sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game.
mull overI need a few days to mull things over before I decide.
reflectI spent a lot of time reflecting on what he'd said.
agonizeShe agonized for days before agreeing to take the job.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continually thinking about
absorb
absorbed
axe
be devoured by somethingidiom
be hung up on somethingidiom
be wrapped up in something/someoneidiom
brain
devour
fixate
fixated
fixation
get into someone
have an axe to grindidiom
nag
obsessive
one-track mind
overactive
preoccupation
preoccupied
preoccupy

brood | American Dictionary

brood
noun[ C ]
us/brud/

broodnoun[C] (GROUP)

a group of young birds all born at the same time, or infml a person’s children:
infml I moved in with Annie and her brood.
brood
verb[ I ]
us/brud/

broodverb[I] (THINK)

to think silently for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry:
He brooded over the insult.

Examples of brood

brood
The number of a male's females is limited and males do assist them in rearing their broods.
Apart from the series of broods described above, two more series were put up.
The chicks are fully grown after about 3 months, when broods begin to break up.
Using the same criteria as for experimental broods, 13 and 6 pairs of control broods were available for analysis in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
Apparent aggregation among random individuals in random broods fell 8-fold when spatial and temporal effects had been accounted for.
However, 4 of 9 broods oviposited by such ovaries were noticeably smaller than normal clutches for an uninfected female of a similar size.
Locations where broods were caught were an approximate indication only of where chicks might have picked up their ticks.
He brooded over what he had written before submitting it for publication.
In such broods larvae are found whose development is arrested over a relatively long period.
The average duration of development calculated for all broods was 51 -5 days, considerably longer than in summer (36 to 40 days).
In the other broods either all the larvae developed actively or 1 to 3 larvae remained hibernating.
There is always a certain number of resting larvae (2 to 12 per cent.) throughout the summer in otherwise active broods.
Also, broods moved around such that ' location ' and ' altitude ' were approximations only of where chicks picked up ticks.
We therefore recorded a brood's location and altitude as at the nearest intersection of a 100 m grid.
In selection analyses, following convention, individuals were the unit of analysis rather than broods.
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