When you're dwelling on something, you're brooding about it — this can be thoughtful or morbidly obsessed.
When you're brooding, you might be depressed about something you just can't stop thinking about—like the lead character in Hamlet. Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, musing, reflective, or ruminative — those are all good things. You have to look at the context to see if someone is brooding in a positive or negative way. This is also a word for what chickens and other egg-laying animals do: sitting on eggs to help them hatch.
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deeply or seriously thoughtful
persistent morbid meditation on a problem
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sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
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