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BROOD OVER

Synonyms within Context: BROOD OVER

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Use in Literature: BROOD OVER

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Speeches: BROOD OVER

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963So 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.

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Expression: BROOD OVER

Expression using "BROOD OVER": brood over smth.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BROOD OVER

Language Translations for "BROOD OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

humbas në mendime (lose oneself). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(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

   

Russian 

  

задумываться (be lost in thought, muse about, muse upon). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dar vueltas por (brood on, toy, turn about, twiddle), cernerse sobre (hang over). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ruva på (incubate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gütmek (bear, drive, Harbor, harbour, herd, nourish, pasture, Shepherd, tail). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

міркувати (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BROOD OVER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incubabat, incubantem, incubantes, incubuerat, incubuerit, incubuit. (various references)

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Anagrams: BROOD OVER

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Fiction
2. Quotations: Speeches
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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