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Princeton's WordNet

  1. caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snugglingnoun

    affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

Wikipedia

  1. hugging

    A hug is a form of endearment, universal in most human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely. If more than two people are involved, it may be referred to as a group hug. Hugs can last for any duration.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hugging

    of Hug

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hugging in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hugging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of hugging in a Sentence

  1. Robert Quigley:

    Social distancing, one of the recommended mitigation strategies, may be difficult to implement with some cultures accustomed to intimate contact a handshake, kissing, hugging, and not all public health resources are created equal. The measures of containment, screening, quarantine, isolation may vary from one jurisdiction to another. Italy is the European nation with the greatest number of air connections with China, so it is no surprise that this country has been hit the hardest.

  2. Chance Crafton:

    How could you do something to two little babies, just looking like they’re hugging each other?

  3. Sheldon Cohen:

    This suggests that being hugged by a trusted person may act as an effective means of conveying support and that increasing the frequency of hugs might be an effective means of reducing the deleterious effects of stress, the apparent protective effect of hugs may be attributable to the physical contact itself or to hugging being a behavioral indicator of support and intimacy.

  4. Mark Davis:

    Everybody's freaked out this morning, even as I was walking the streets, you'd you'd see somebody on the phone just crying, you know, somebody else hugging each other and crying.

  5. Dan Wright:

    Funerals are basically about gathering together and celebrating somebody's life and saying goodbye, these things have been impossible to do. Funerals directors... have been reduced to becoming policemen to prevent people from getting together, standing too close, hugging each other.

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