hug
/hʌɡ/ verb A2- To cling closely together.
- To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. · Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.· They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.
- To stay close to. · to hug the shore, to hug the coastline
- To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
He/she/it hugs · Past hugged · Past participle hugged · -ing form hugging
Verb forms
- Base form
- hug
- He/she/it
- hugs
- Past
- hugged
- Past participle
- hugged
- -ing form
- hugging
From the library
Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
Wait my coming, O most infamous Bandar-log!” He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
Kaa was everything that the monkeys feared in the jungle, for none of them knew the limits of his power, none of them could look him in the face, and none had ever come alive out of his hug.
“Art thou hurt?” said Baloo, hugging him softly.
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