brood

a brood of chicks.

a brood hen; a brood mare.

a brood of figure paintings

broods of sedentary clergymen.

Don't brood about it.

brooding over life's injustices.

he would brood about silly things.

The hen is brooding her eggs.

He was then brooding what to do.

The hen brought off a brood of young.

kept dwelling on what went wrong.See Synonyms at brood

he stared with brooding eyes.

he emanated a powerful brooding air.

For years he brooded vengeance.

(over, on)The fog brooded over the village.

The ornithopod is the first hatchling of a brood of plant-eating dinosaurs.

It is not advisable just to sit there brooding about the unpleasant bygones.