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hautoa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
  • foment verb To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
  • hatch noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
  • incubate verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.

Senses

hautoa is used for these senses in English:

  • foment (medicine, transitive) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
  • hatch (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • incubate (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  • incubate (transitive, figurative) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

brood — full definition

  1. noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
  2. noun Informal term for the children of one family.
  3. verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
  4. verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.

foment — full definition

  1. verb To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
  2. verb To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

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