Hyphenation of brooding

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word brooding ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

brood-ing

Definitions of brooding :

1.	Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
2.	Persistent morbid meditation on a problem
3.	Deeply or seriously thoughtful Byron lives on not only in his poetry
4.	But also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man

Synonyms of brooding :

adj	broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful
noun	incubation, parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
noun	pensiveness, melancholy

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