incubate ( synonym found)

Definition of incubate:

(v) : to brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions; to incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preperation for hatching it
"1985: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off."

Definition of incubate:

(v) : to brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions; to incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preperation for hatching it
"1985: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off."

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