couver — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- coddle verb To treat someone with excessive care, protection, or indulgence.
- mollycoddle noun A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
- smolder verb To burn slowly, giving off smoke but with little to no flame.
Senses
couver is used for these senses in English:
- brood (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- brood (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- coddle (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
- smolder (intransitive, now, US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
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.
coddle — full definition
- verb To treat someone with excessive care, protection, or indulgence.
- verb To cook gently in water just below boiling point, especially of eggs.