[
US
/ˈhəɡ/
]
[ UK /hˈʌɡ/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌɡ/ ]
VERB
-
fit closely or tightly
The dress hugged her hips -
hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
They embraced
Hug me, please
He hugged her close to him
NOUN
-
a tight or amorous embrace
come here and give me a big hug
How To Use hug In A Sentence
- Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
- Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
- Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
- And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
- We all are monoplane wing angel, only then hugs, can soar.