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Mope vs. Brood — What's the Difference?

Mope vs. Brood — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mope and Brood

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Mope

"Mope" is the fourth single released from American music band the Bloodhound Gang's 1999 album Hooray for Boobies. A music video for the single was released in June 2000.

Brood

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.

Mope

To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected.

Brood

The children in one family.

Mope

To move in a listless or aimless manner, especially from being sad or depressed
Moped about the house all summer.
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Brood

To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry
Brooded about his future.
Brooded over the insult for several days.

Mope

A person given to gloomy or dejected moods.

Brood

To be depressed
All he seemed to do was sit and brood.

Mope

Mopes Low spirits; the blues. Often used with the.

Brood

To sit on or hatch eggs.

Mope

(intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.

Brood

To protect developing eggs or young.

Mope

(transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.

Brood

To hover envelopingly; hang
Mist brooded over the moor.

Mope

The act of moping
When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.

Brood

To think about (something) persistently or moodily
Brooded that her work might come to nothing.

Mope

(archaic) A dull, spiritless person.

Brood

To sit on or hatch (eggs).

Mope

(pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.

Brood

To protect (developing eggs or young).

Mope

To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little; as, to mope around the house.
A sickly part of one true senseCould not so mope.

Brood

Kept for breeding
A brood hen.

Mope

To make spiritless and stupid.

Brood

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

Mope

A dull, spiritless person.

Brood

(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.

Mope

Someone who wastes time

Brood

The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.

Mope

Move around slowly and aimlessly

Brood

The children in one family; offspring.

Mope

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

Brood

That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

Brood

Parentage.

Brood

(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Brood

(of animals) Kept or reared for breeding.
Brood ducks
A brood mare

Brood

(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.

Brood

(transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.

Brood

(intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.

Brood

(intransitive) To be bred.

Brood

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
A hen followed by a brood of ducks.

Brood

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.

Brood

That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood,(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).

Brood

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Brood

Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

Brood

Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

Brood

To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.

Brood

To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; - usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
Brooding on unprofitable gold.
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.

Brood

To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

Brood

To cherish with care.

Brood

To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.

Brood

The young of an animal cared for at one time

Brood

Think moodily or anxiously about something

Brood

Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
The terrible vision brooded over her all day long

Brood

Be in a huff and display one's displeasure;
She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

Brood

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Brood

Sit on (eggs);
Birds brood
The female covers the eggs

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