Blooding vs Brooding - What's the difference?
blooding | brooding |
(medicine, historical) A bleeding.
* 1832 , The Edinburgh Review (page 470)
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Jon Caramanica, title=Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen, work=New York Times
, passage=The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings , thick with doubt and fear.}}
As verbs the difference between blooding and brooding
is that blooding is present participle of lang=en while brooding is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between blooding and brooding
is that blooding is a bleeding while brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.As an adjective brooding is
broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.blooding
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(en noun)- Seven or eight annual bloodings , and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health
brooding
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .
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