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huddled

huddled

2.8
Close together in a small group for warmth or safety
  • adjective
  • /ˈhʌdld/
translation icon : acurrucado
  • After the power outage, the family huddled in the living room, sharing stories to pass the time.

And she surrounds my body and we're tight together, huddled together.

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Examples

  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  • Ran over and held him and we stayed like that, huddled on the sofa for hours.

  • So it's not, it's, it's, it's not that I live huddled up in the corner of my house waiting for the next outbreak.

  • And she surrounds my body and we're tight together, huddled together.

    Molly Burke

  • He spent hours huddled on the ground, unable to move, mourning his son.

  • Those founding principles that, for the better part of two centuries, made America the last bastion of true freedom in the world, so much so that millions of tired, poor, and huddled masses yearned to breathe free on our soil.

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  • The children huddled together under the blanket to keep warm during the storm.

  • The puppies huddled closely to their mother, seeking comfort and protection from the cold.

Synonyms

gathered
vshuddled
2.2

Things brought together in one place, often in small folds

are packed closely for protection or comfort rather than for neat arrangement

How Close

packed
12 1.3
huddled
2.8
clustered
4.1
grouped
2.0
sparse
31 5.0
scattered
1 3.5

Surface Forms

huddled positive

Morphology

huddled = huddle (transparent) = huddle + ed

Regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'huddle'; meaning follows directly from the base verb.

Etymology

Huddled suggests people pulled close together for warmth or safety, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of cuddle but with many bodies drawn in tight. So, huddled means 'closely crowded or gathered together' for comfort or protection.