brood
/bɹud/ verbe C2En français : couver, protéger, se morfondre, broyer du noir
- To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. · In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster. · Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon one's thoughts moodily and at length, mainly alone. · He sat brooding over the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- To be bred.
He/she/it broods · Prétérit brooded · Participe passé brooded · Forme en -ing brooding
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
- brooded
- Participe passé
- brooded
- Forme en -ing
- brooding
Dans la bibliothèque
For the last--the very last of the brood?
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.
The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.” One of the young Larks heard his speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what place they should move for safety.
He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
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