Crossword-Solution: BROOD 5 letters, 146 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Brood	v. t.	The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
Brood	v. t.	The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
Brood	v. t.	That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Brood	v. t.	Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Brood	a.	Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood	a.	Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brood	v. i.	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.
Brood	v. i.	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.
Brood	v. t.	To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
Brood	v. t.	To cherish with care.
Brood	v. t.	To think anxiously or moodily upon.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BROOD	anagram	BORDO, BRODO, DOBRO, DROOB

We have 146 clues for the answer “BROOD”

Clue	Answers
Act all emo	1 answer
Animal family.	1 answer
Be all emo	1 answer
Be in an adolescent mood	1 answer
Bird's family	1 answer
Bunch of baby birds	1 answer
Bunch of chicks	1 answer
Chicks together	1 answer
Chicks, say	1 answer
Children in a family.	1 answer
Coop offspring	1 answer
Dwell gloomily on a subject	1 answer
Exhibit glumness	1 answer
Family of offspring	1 answer
Family of young animals	1 answer
Farm family	1 answer
Fowl family	1 answer
Fret repeatedly (over)	1 answer
Group of baby chicks	1 answer
Group of chicks	1 answer
Group of hatchlings	1 answer
Group of nestlings	1 answer
Hatchling group	1 answer
Hatchlings	1 answer
Group of hatchlings or to worry persistently	1 answer
Hen's charge	1 answer
Hen's concern	1 answer
Hen's group	1 answer
Hen's hatchlings	1 answer
Hen's litter	1 answer
Hen's offspring	1 answer
Hen's progeny.	1 answer
Host of hatchlings	1 answer
Incubator newcomers	1 answer
Keep the eggs warm	1 answer
Mama bird's group	1 answer
Meditate gloomily	1 answer
Mother hen's "entourage"	1 answer
Mother hen's charges	1 answer
Mother hen's offspring	1 answer
Mother hen's responsibility	1 answer
Muse darkly.	1 answer
Muse morosely	1 answer
Nest of chicks	1 answer
Ones a mother hen mothers	1 answer
Phoebe's family	1 answer
Ponder gloomily	1 answer
Sit around and worry	1 answer
Sit pensively	1 answer
The ______ ,1979 Cronenberg movie	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EAAR

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with BROOD (5)

The Ox and the Frog AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Meanwhile the faint cloudlets had flown back into the south-east corner of the sky, as if in terror of the large cloud, like a young brood gazed in upon by some monster.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with BROOD (3)

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue bl…

Robert E. Howard Queen of the Black Coast

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov

Forgive and forget what had happened. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures. Relax !!! You are constantly evolving. Love yourself to bits. Get up !!! Step out !!! And keep this in mind that God’s help is close at hand. Repose trust in Him and all will be well. ~Latika Teotia

Latika Teotia

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).