Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of huddle
- not comparableCrowded together in a huddle
1 more example
Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.
2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN - not comparableCrouched.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecrowded or massed together
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch opeengepakt
- opeengepaktcrowded together
Māori tapapahu
- tapapahucrowded together
Cite this entry
huddled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huddled
“huddled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huddled. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “huddled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huddled.
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