Brood and Set

Brood

Brood verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Usage example: don't disturb the hen while she's brooding
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Synonyms for Brood

Set is a synonym for brood in incubate topic. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a verb "Brood".

Nearby Words: brooding, broody, brooded, brooder

Set

Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Usage example: the hen set for days

Brood is a synonym for set in incubate topic. Sometimes you can use "Brood" instead a verb "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

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How words are described

original original brood original set
entire entire brood entire set
massive massive brood massive set
large large brood large set
Other adjectives: evil, new, different, previous.

Both words in one sentence

  • Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl The Arrow fic Legacy is set twenty-five years in the future, but Oliver still has a tendency to brood.
  • Charlie Chan, in the novels of Earl Derr Biggers and later in a long-running film series, was set apart by his Chinese origin and — in the movies — his brood of meddlesome comic-relief offspring.
  • Notable enough to get its own page.There was also StarCraft: Ghost, a Third-Person Shooter set a few years after Brood War (but some before StarCraft II) and announced in 2001.
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