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Meanings of brooding in English

Portuguese
incubação

Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.

        incubação
        Spanish
        abstracción

        Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.

              abstracción

              Deeply or seriously thoughtful;

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                  Usage of brooding in English
                  1
                  Moreover, every brooding male is out of action for over seven weeks.
                  Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
                  2
                  The potential connection Heat had been brooding over could wait no longer.
                  Frozen Heat
                  3
                  Just short of his middle years, handsome in a brooding, rugged fashion.
                  Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
                  4
                  Students can become brooding pessimists at this late stage in the process.
                  The Irish Times
                  5
                  On the sidewalk she heard the brooding scuff of heavy work boots.
                  The double bind
                  6
                  The brooding, the moodiness; all the childish qualities, were my own importations.
                  The Inheritors
                  7
                  No lights shone from the brooding bunker that was the main house.
                  Devil Bones
                  8
                  She would almost prefer another attack to this sense of brooding unease.
                  Embrace the darkness
                  9
                  Here you feel Amara in the same way brooding over the sands.
                  The Garden of Allah
                  10
                  I think it's not in Walter's best interests to go on brooding.
                  The red door
                  11
                  That I'm not really a brooding, intense person, actually almost the opposite.
                  Reuters
                  12
                  Aldric still did not say anything, brooding with his arms crossed, thinking.
                  The saint of dragons
                  13
                  Or the brooding fear she could occasionally sense deep in his heart.
                  Darkness revealed
                  14
                  And even less point in locking yourself in this room and brooding.
                  Darkness revealed
                  15
                  The light from the lantern intensified the furrows between his brooding eyes.
                  The Rim of the Desert
                  16
                  It's not good to have too much time to sit around brooding.
                  Tell me, pretty maiden
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                  Translations for brooding
                  Portuguese
                  incubação
                  Brooding through the time
                  Brooding across language varieties
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                  Common
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