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词汇 brooded
释义 brooded
past simple and past participle ofbrood
brood
verb[ I ]
uk /bruːd/ us /bruːd/
to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: 忧思,担扰;怨忿地想
I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day.我希望她不要整天呆在房间里忧心忡忡的。
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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
fetishize
fixate
fixated
fixation
get into someone
obsessive
obsessively
one-track mind
overactive
preoccupation
preoccupied
wrap

Examples of brooded


brooded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


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.
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A deep peace has brooded, not wholly undisturbed by some subterranean rumblings, over the course of our discussions.
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I feel that the spirit of my pet centipede has brooded over all our proceedings to-day.
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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.
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They had brooded over it for years.
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Nestlings are brooded for the first five days, after which the young are capable of maintaining a fairly constant body temperature.
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The eggs usually hatch in about five weeks, and are brooded by both parents.
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The hatchlings are brooded for approximately 12 to 14 days and then fledge at that time.
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Here fertilisation takes place and the larvae are brooded for ten to fourteen days.
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Day reportedly brooded almost continually over the end of his pitching career.
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Fertilisation is internal and the eggs are brooded inside the mantle for a week before emerging as free swimming nauplius larvae.
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Young chicks are brooded continuously, with the female brooding during the night and the duties being shared during the day.
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Fish that investigate this get showered in glochidia which have been brooded within the mussel's mantle cavity over the winter period.
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The eggs clump together and may adhere in a viscous mass to the adult's spines and be brooded there.
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