cancel vs huddle

cancel

verb
  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To kill. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

huddle

verb
  • To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. 

  • To form a huddle. 

  • To get together and discuss a topic. 

  • To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. 

  • To crowd together. 

  • 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). 

  • To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move. 

adj
  • Huddled, confused, congested. 

noun
  • A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. 

  • A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. 

  • A dense and disorderly crowd. 

How often have the words cancel and huddle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )