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brood over
verb as in concentrate
Strong matches
verb as in contemplate
verb as in harbor
verb as in hover
Weak matches
verb as in lucubrate
Strong matches
verb as in meditate
verb as in mull
verb as in remember
Strong matches
verb as in study
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Example Sentences
Although drawn from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine,” Troy Kennedy Martin’s script sticks to a three-month crisis point in 1957 — one of those carefully chosen narrative vantages from which a biopic can survey the glories of the past and brood over the uncertainties of the future.
So you just brood over it and have real honest conversations every night?
He was lonely for his wife’s company and political advice: “I want to sit and converse with you about our debates every evening. I sit here alone and brood over political probabilities and conjectures.”
Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready.
Mrs. March would not leave Beth’s side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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