Sekirov Dictionary

hug

/hʌɡ/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 4
phrases 2

verb5

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to hold someone closely in both arms, often out of love, joy or sadness
- Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
- They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.
To cling closely together.
•
(figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
- We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names — 1665
•
To stay close to.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. — 1913
•
(no longer used) To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
- They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited. — 1885

noun2

A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, or the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace).
A particular grip in wrestling.

forms

hugged · hugging · hugs · huggest

Phrases with hug

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