When a chicken sits on an egg, it incubates it. To incubate means to keep something safe and warm so that it can grow.
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
Verb
sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
Verb
develop under favorable conditions, such as germs and bacteria
v. i. & t.
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to
brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
Incubate
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
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