hug
Meaning of hug
noun
- A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
- A particular grip in wrestling.
- To crouch; huddle as with cold.
- To cling closely together.
- To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
- To stay close to (the shore etc.)
- To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
Information about hug
- The plural form of hug is: hugs.
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Hyphenation of hug
hug
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- hug is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
hug synonyms
Meaning clinch:
Meaning embrace:
Meaning :
cleave, stick, hunker, squat, stoop, accoll, coll, treasure
Translation of hug
- French: embrasser, étreindre, étreinte
- German: umarmen, umschlingen, umhalsen, herzen, Umarmung, Umschlingung
- Italian: abbracciare, stringere, abbraccio
- Spanish: abrazar, abrazamiento, abrazo
- Portuguese: abraçar, abraço
Anagrams of hug
Words that rhyme with hug
chug, Kremenchug, kerchug, Schug, Nidhug, bearhug, shug, Thug, thug
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