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Huddle

To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

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Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cluster 76% connected

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conference 76% connected

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Constellate 76% connected

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crouch 76% connected

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flock 76% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stoop 76% connected

Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Huddler 74% connected

One who huddles things together.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Huddler 74% connected

One who huddles things together.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Member part 1

Huddler 70% connected

One who huddles things together.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a member, substance or component part.

Synonym 2

Cower 92% connected

To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Powwow 92% connected

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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