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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

brooding

/bro͞od'-ĭng/ · brood·ing · IPA /ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
01 a. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
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    worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
Syn. broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose.
02 a. good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.
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    good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn. brood, hatching.
03 n. the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
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    the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
Syn. incubation.