gor — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- incubate verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- incubation noun The process of keeping eggs warm so they can develop and hatch.
- inflammation noun A part of the body becoming red, swollen, hot, and painful, usually as a reaction to injury or infection.
Senses
gor is used for these senses in English:
- brood (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- incubate (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- incubation Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
- inflammation (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
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.
incubate — full definition
- verb To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- verb To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.