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Past tense of huddle

regular verb

The past tense of huddle is huddled. The past participle is also huddled.

Forms of huddle

Base form (V1)huddle /ˈhʌdəl/
Past tense (V2)huddled /ˈhʌdl̩d/
Past participle (V3)huddled /ˈhʌdl̩d/
Present participlehuddling
Third person singularhuddles

Huddled in a sentence

  • The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.
  • During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as...
  • They huddled, waiting for the storm to blow over.From the entry blow over
  • It huddled beneath the spreading arms of a large leopard tree.2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 9. From the entry leopard tree
  • Orange trees and apricot trees huddled amid the gray-silver leaves of gnarled olive-branched trees.2013, Lynny Harris, Midbar III, page 245. From the entry olive-branched

Meaning of huddle

  1. noun A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
  2. noun A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
  3. noun A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

Full definition of huddle

Questions about the past tense of huddle

What is the past tense of huddle?
The past tense of huddle is huddled.
What is the past participle of huddle?
The past participle of huddle is huddled.
Is huddle a regular or irregular verb?
Huddle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huddle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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