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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine; (regret); despair. |
Thought | Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | So long as fanaticism and fear brood over the affairs of men, we must arm to deter others from aggression. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "BROOD OVER": brood over smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BROOD OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | humbas në mendime (lose oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 嫗 (old woman, protect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přemítat o nìèem (brood over smth.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | brüten über (brood upon, pore), nachgrübeln über (brood upon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκέφτομαι (contemplate, think, think of, think up), συλλογίζομαι (bethink, chew, cogitate, meditate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tépelődik vmin (to brood on sg, to brood over sg), tűnődik vmin (to brood over sg, to mull over sg), kotlik vmin (to brood on sg, to brood over sg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | covare (brood, hatch, incubate, nurse, simmer, sit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | くつくつ法師 (approximately, around, bending loosely back and forth, dizziness, giddiness, Kutsukutsu-boushi semi, like a small spinning object, making something, meandering, mope, repetitively, round, tediously, to bend loosely back and forth, type of cicada, worry about, wriggling body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くよくよ (mope, worry about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodbray overay задумываться (be lost in thought, muse about, muse upon). (various references) dar vueltas por (brood on, toy, turn about, twiddle), cernerse sobre (hang over). (various references) ruva på (incubate). (various references) gütmek (bear, drive, Harbor, harbour, herd, nourish, pasture, Shepherd, tail). (various references) міркувати (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incubabat, incubantem, incubantes, incubuerat, incubuerit, incubuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-o-o-r-r-v" | |
-2 letters: brooder. | |
-3 letters: border, drover, overdo. | |
-4 letters: bevor, booed, bored, borer, brood, dobro, drove, orbed, order, robed, rodeo, roved, rover. | |
-5 letters: bode, boor, bore, bred, broo, doer, door, dore, dorr, dove, oboe, odor, ordo, over, redo, robe, rode, rood, rove, verb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-o-o-r-r-v" | |
+3 letters: overborrowed. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Fiction 2. Quotations: Speeches 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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