English-Portuguese translations for hug

• abraçar
  Como posso eu estar segura de que, caso esta Resolução seja aprovada, ninguém abraçará e beijará criminosos em meu nome? How can I be sure that if this resolution is accepted nobody is going to hug and kiss war criminals on my behalf?
• abraço
  Não estamos aqui para andarmos aos abraços uns aos outros. We are not here to stand around hugging one another.
  Ele abraçou-me, beijou-me e disse: "Por favor, mamã, vai-te embora!" He hugged me, kissed me and said: "Please, mama, go!”
  Como todos sabemos, um toque tanto pode ser uma suave carícia como o abraço com a força de um urso. We all know that a touch can be either a gentle caress or the hug of a bear.

Definition of hug

• A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug
• To crouch; huddle as with cold
• To cling closely together
• To stay close to (the shore etc
• To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish

Examples

• Billy hugged Danny until he felt better

Related words

• huge
• chug
• Hugh
• Huguenot
• thug
• chugger
• treehugger
• chugging
• hugging