Found 3 items, similar to Brooding.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: brood anak-anak, eram, mengerami
English → English (WordNet) Definition: brooding brooding adj : persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative] n 1: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body [syn: incubation] 2: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn: pensiveness]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Brooding Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooding.] 1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. [1913 Webster] Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. [1913 Webster] Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]