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"(intransitive) To crowd together."
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"ref": "1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54",
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"ref": "2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02",
"text": "George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.",
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"To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system."
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"(transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system."
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"ref": "1845, John Henry Newman, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine",
"text": "Huddle up a peace.",
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"ref": "1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady",
"text": "Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.",
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},
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling",
"text": "This resolution she accordingly executed; and the next morning before the sun, she huddled on her cloaths, and at a very unfashionable, unseasonable, unvisitable hour, went to Lady Bellaston […]",
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"To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together)."
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"(transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together)."
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"(bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "strupvam se",
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"word": "natěsnat se"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "crowd or crouch together",
"word": "torohū"
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"_dis1": "27 31 11 1 20 5 5",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "crowd or crouch together",
"word": "tapapahu"
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"text": "Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling",
"text": "This resolution she accordingly executed; and the next morning before the sun, she huddled on her cloaths, and at a very unfashionable, unseasonable, unvisitable hour, went to Lady Bellaston […]",
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"word": "összezsúfolódik"
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "curl one's legs up to the chest",
"word": "se blottir"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "curl one's legs up to the chest",
"word": "összekuporodik"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "curl one's legs up to the chest",
"word": "acurrucarse"
}
],
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}
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"name": "m"
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"id2": "verbal frequentative"
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},
{
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{
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"name": "cog"
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"ref": "1713, Richard Steele, The Guardian, number 21",
"text": "The evangelists are easily distinguished from the rest, by a passionate zeal and love which the painter has thrown in their faces; the huddle group of those who stand most distant, are admirable representations of men abashed with their late unbelief and hardness of heart.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1911, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 51",
"text": "Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall as though he would never breathe again.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ipa": "/ˈhʌdəl/"
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"rhymes": "-ʌdəl"
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