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 stir up trouble or push people toward taking action, often unrest.
- hatch noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
- incubate verb To keep eggs, organisms or living tissue under the right environmental conditions in order to hatch, grow or sustain them.
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
- noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- noun Informal term for the children of one family.
- verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
- verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.
foment — full definition
- verb To stir up trouble or push people toward taking action, often unrest.
- verb (dated) To treat a part of the body by bathing it, or by applying a warm, moist dressing.
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