Definition of Hug

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Definition of Hug

Hug

To cower; to crouch; to curl up.

To crowd together; to cuddle.

To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.

To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.

A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

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Hug Quotations

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
Layne Staley

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Princess Diana

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
Steve Irwin

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
Jim Valvano

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Virgil

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Desiderius Erasmus

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold MacMillan

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

Hug Translations

hug in Danish is omfavne
hug in Dutch is knuffelen
hug in German is umarmen, Umarmung
hug in Norwegian is klemme, omfavne, klem
hug in Portuguese is abranger
hug in Swedish is kram

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