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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hovel .
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Examples
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In these two tents, a hovelled together community of neighbors who have lost their homes, mothers who have lost their children and children who have lost their parents.
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We had made the blessings of peace a curse, he told us, in those days, "when only the ledger lived, and when only not all men lied; when the poor were hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine; when chalk and alum and plaster were sold to the poor for bread, and the spirit of murder worked in the very means of life."
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When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine,
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