incubate

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

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