huddling
present participle ofhuddle
huddle
verb[I]
uk/ˈhʌd.əl/us/ˈhʌd.əl/to comeclosetogether in agroup, forexamplebecause it iscold:
Employees huddledroundtelevisionsets at thecompanyheadquarters.
It was socoldthat we huddledtogetherforwarmth.
tositorstandin abentpositionwithyourarmsandlegsclosetoyourbody,especiallybecause ofcoldorfear:
Sophie was sofrightenedby thenoiseof thefireworksthat she huddled(up)in acornerof theroom.
mainlyUS
todiscusssomethingprivatelyin asmallgroup:
After huddlingwithadvisors, thepresidentgave aspeech.
WespoketoDemocraticlawmakerswho are huddling on thisissueonCapitolHilltonight.
- Everyone huddled around thefiretokeepwarm.
- Resident Loree Wilkinson, 39, and herchildren,ages6 and 9, huddled in abasementandprayedas thetornadopassedoverhead.
- Inside thebars,wearylocalshuddle.
- Men huddle in twos and threes,talkingabout this and that.
Forming groups (of people)
- alienated
- be ranged against/withsomething/someone
- cluster
- congregate
- convene
- converge
- crowd around(someone/something)
- flock
- form
- gather
- get
- get together
- group
- huddle
- muster
- range
- reunion
- round
- roundsomething/someoneup
- throng
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huddling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Huddlingfor warmth, they chewed lumps of pemmican and raw bacon; without fuel there was no water to drink.
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Obviously the shock was so great that they are nowhuddlingtogether somewhere trying to create another policy on something.
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Everybody thought "collective security" meanthuddlingtogether for common action, whereas it meant the security one hoped to obtain by common action.
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That creates the impression in the public mind—not so wrongly—of ahuddlingtogether at the centre.
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The result was the tenements from which we have not even yet escaped, thehuddlingof our people in towns and all those horrors.
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Are we to go on for everhuddlingmore closely around the fire without replenishing the fuel?
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He spoke of the moors and of peoplehuddlingtogether for warmth to survive.
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The new criminal justice boards, which have been set up on a county-wide basis, need local one-stop shops, rather thanhuddlingtogether away from their customers and the public.
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You have delayed rapidity of mobilisation by collecting troops from all quarters andhuddlingthem together in particular battalions without regard from whence they came and how they were raised.
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Another mechanism for social integration is prolonged physical contact orhuddling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At night, troops will split into sleeping partieshuddlingclosely together to keep warm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This strategy, similar tohuddlingin small mammals, makes use of body heat from all the organisms and lowers heat loss.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Huddlingtogether may have also helped the houses survive to the present day: they were poorly built and had little structural integrity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Huddlingin static strongpoints simply concedes the field to the insurgents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is named after the act ofhuddlingin football.
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