verb, noun
verb (-gg-)
1 to put your arms around sb and hold them tightly, especially to show that you like or love them
SYNEMBRACE:
[VN] They hugged each other. * She hugged him tightly. * He hugged Anna to him. * [V] They put their arms around each other and hugged.
2 [VN] to put your arms around sth and hold it close to your body:
She sat in the chair, hugging her knees. * He hugged the hot-water bottle to his chest.
3 [VN] (of a path, vehicle, etc.) to keep close to sth for a distance:
The track hugs the coast for a mile. * We crept along, hugging the perimeter fence.
4 [VN] to fit tightly around sth, especially a person's body:
figure-hugging jeans
noun an act of putting your arms around sb and holding them tightly, especially to show that you like or love them:
She gave her mother a big hug. * He stopped to receive hugs and kisses from the fans.
seealsoBEARHUG
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hug is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does hug appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — hug appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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