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HUDDLED

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• HUDDLED (adjective)
The adjective HUDDLED has 2 senses:

1. squatting close to the ground
2. crowded or massed together

Familiarity information: HUDDLED used as an adjective is rare.

• HUDDLED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Squatting close to the ground

Synonyms:

crouched; crouching; huddled; hunkered; hunkered down

Context examples:

poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind / he stayed in the ditch hunkered down

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Crowded or massed together

Context examples:

give me...your huddled masses / the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind

Similar:

crowded (overfilled or compacted or concentrated)

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