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".
Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Usage example: the hen set for days
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The Arrow fic Legacy is set twenty-five years in the future, but Oliver still has a tendency to brood.
Source: Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl - 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.
Source: The Exotic Detective - 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.
Source: Franchise / StarCraft
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