MEANING
1. To draw close together, often for warmth, shelter, or privacy.
2. To hold a small, private discussion to decide something.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- huddle for warmth
- huddle beneath a shelter
On the page
The passengers huddled beneath the awning while the station doors remained locked.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- huddle
- Past tense
- huddled
- Past participle
- huddled
- Present participle
- huddling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- huddle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are huddling
- Present perfect
- have/has huddled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been huddling
- Past
- huddled
- Past continuous
- was/were huddling
- Past perfect
- had huddled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been huddling
- Future
- will huddle
- Future continuous
- will be huddling
- Future perfect
- will have huddled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been huddling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: huddle; huddles; huddled; huddled; huddling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: huddles.
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