brüten — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
• hatch noun A small door or opening, often in a floor, ceiling, wall, or vehicle.
• sitting noun A period of time spent seated doing a particular activity, often in one continuous stretch.

Senses

brüten is used for these senses in English:

• brood (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
• brood (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
• hatch (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
• sitting A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

breed — full definition

1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

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.

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