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# hugging

«hugging» in Mova's school dictionary: **holding someone close in your arms to show love, comfort…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (form of hug: hug, hugs, hugged, hugging); noun (hugging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hugging means holding someone close in your arms to show love, comfort or friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#m1)

2) Hugging can mean staying very close to something, like a road hugging the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In family and friendship life people greet and comfort each other by hugging. In PSHE lessons pupils learn to ask before hugging and that everyone can say no. In stories a child is hugging a teddy and a path is hugging the cliff. Phrases: hugging each other, hugging tightly, tree hugging, hugging the coast.

### examples

- The friends were hugging at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x1)
- She was hugging her teddy bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x2)
- Ask before hugging someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x3)
- The road keeps hugging the coastline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x4)
- The twins stood hugging each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x5)
- Hugging a pet can make you feel calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/#x6)

### note

From «hug»: double the g before -ing and -ed (hugging, hugged). A cuddle is a longer, softer hug. Not everyone likes hugging — respect people who say no.

### In the corpora

- [The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/0/)
- [Other people's bodies belong to them too, so we ask before hugging and stop when someone says no.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/18/)
- [Your body is for doing things, like running, laughing, hugging and learning, not only for looking at.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/9/)
- [Going outside, moving your body, hugging a pet, music and talking to a friend all lift the mood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/91-worry-and-sadness/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hugging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hugging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.