brood+over
111worry — I noun affliction, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, concern, consternation, difficulty, discomfort, discomposure, dismay, disquiet, distress, distress one s self, dread, fear, tearfulness, grief, malaise, mental agitation …
112dwell on — Synonyms and related words: accent, accentuate, always trot out, bear in mind, belabor, breathe vengeance, brood over, cherish, continue, dawdle, drag out, draw out, dwell upon, emphasize, extend, fan the embers, give emphasis to, hammer away at …
113grieve — Synonyms and related words: ache, affect, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, barb the dart, bear, bemoan, bewail, bleed, break down, bring to tears, brood over, bruise, complain, constrain, crush, cry, cut, cut up, deplore, desolate,… …
114sorrow — Synonyms and related words: ache, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad luck, bemoan, bemoaning, bewail, bewailing, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill,… …
115take on — Synonyms and related words: accept, ache, acquire, add, admit, adopt, agonize, air a grievance, annex, antagonize, append, appropriate, assume, attack, attempt, battle, be livid, be pissed, beat against, beat up against, beef, bellyache, bespeak …
116concentrate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. distill, condense, consolidate; intensify, fix, aim, focus; converge, center, localize; collect, assemble, gather. See assemblage, convergence. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bring or come together] Syn.… …
117agonize — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. anguish, struggle, writhe; see suffer 1 , worry 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. suffer, bleed, struggle, worry, fret, torture oneself, stew, lose sleep over, brood over, *sweat bullets, writhe, stay awake nights,… …
118chafe — v 1. warm up, heat up, rub together, kindle, inflame. 2. wear, wear down or away, wear out, fray, ravel, unravel, shred, wear to shreds or pieces, tatter, Inf. frazzle, erode, waste away; abrade, rub, fret, rasp, grate, scratch, scrape,… …
119concentrate — v 1. focus, center, concenter, converge, localize, centralize; compact, consolidate, contract, draw together, constrict, constringe, compress. 2. collect, gather, congregate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, flock together; assemble, muster, rally …
120fret — I v 1. worry, agonize, writhe, lose sleep over, stay awake nights, Inf. stew; pout, frown, sulk, brood over or on, mope; complain, fuss, gripe, grumble, croak, find fault, make a fuss about, whine, Inf. grouse, Sl. squawk, Archaic. pine; chafe,… …
