1Squeeze (someone) tightly in one's arms, typically to express affection.

他紧紧地拥抱着她。

人们互相接吻并拥抱。

1. 1.1 Hold (something) closely or tightly round or against part of one's body.
   紧抱
   he hugged his knees to his chest

   他紧抱双膝于胸前。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Seizing the nearest bathrobe, I hugged it tightly around my body before whizzing through the door barefoot.
   • His wet suit was hugging every part of his body and he was hugging his surfboard.
   • Then the older of the two folded her arms around her knees, hugging them to her chest.
   • I clutched the gown to me and felt that feminine joy spread throughout my body as I hugged it to myself.
   • Angstrom pulls his legs up close to his body, hugging them tightly.
   • He was busy trying to think of a potential plan when he heard a sniff and turned back around to find Laura hugging her knees tightly and biting her lip, hard.
   • I hesitantly sat down next to her, hugging my knees tightly.
   • Kassa sat huddled in a corner of the small room, hugging her knees tightly to her chest and resting her forehead on them.
   • I told Christopher honestly, propping my knees up and hugging them.
   • He picked up Josie's limp body and hugged it to himself, she bled on him, but he didn't care.
   • He hunched his legs up to his body and hugged them tightly to his chest as the night wind tore across him.
   • She curled up, hugging her knees tightly to her chest and Kara moved to help hold her in position.
   • I curled up in a ball, bringing my knees up and hugging them, feeling cold even under the thick quilt cover.
   • Morgan curled his arms around his knees, hugging them to his chest.
   • Annika spent most of her time with her sister, knees drawn up to her chest, hugging them tightly.
   • She pulled her knees to her chest and hugged them tightly.
   • She quickly crawled against the railing and sobbed, grabbing her knees against her, hugging it tightly for comfort.
   • Kai was sitting on the ground, hugging her knees tightly.
   • She hugged her coat tightly to her body to keep from getting a chill.
   • Blair reached out for the blanket now and pulled it over his legs and body, hugging his abdomen with both arms.

   Synonyms

   embrace, clasp, cradle, fold, enfold, envelop, squeeze, hold tight, hold in one's arms
2. 1.2 Fit tightly round.
   紧贴
   a pair of jeans that hugged the contours of his body

   一条紧紧显露他体型的牛仔裤。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She had black jeans that hugged her so perfectly that they showed off every curve in her beautiful body.
   • As the pencil thin model draped in a body hugging kebaya walked in, the audience let out a collective cry.
   • She came out five minutes later, wearing jeans that hugged her hips nicely and a windbreaker jacket that was black.
   • It can be stretched all out and long like in the picture or it can be scrunched up into a sexy body hugging mini dress.
   • He will be wearing cargo pants and a body hugging singlet, with emphasis on his upper body.
   • She looked gorgeous in her whitewashed jeans and curve hugging soft pink sweater.
   • Jeans hugged at their hips, with a matching t-shirt, which only revealed a tiny bit of skin.
   • Her small purse draped over her right shoulder, her light blue shirt hugged at her slender figure and her jeans looked like they were suffocating her legs.
   • The dress hugged her body tightly but gently; bringing out her full curves and luscious figure.
   • She'd gone with a dress that hugged her body so tightly that it showed off her pneumatic chest and flat stomach.
   • The jean skirt was just above her knees and hugged her curves.
   • She was dressed in washed-out blue jeans that seemed to hug all the right places.
   • I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy.
   • New patented lift arms make sure the 18-inch reels hug almost any contour.
   • He tilted his head, admiring the view and the way her jeans hugged and pulled.
   • It was a slinky, body hugging number of the type originally made famous by Coco Channel.
3. 1.3 Keep close to.
   和…保持接近，紧挨，紧靠
   I headed north, hugging the coastline all the way

   我向北出发，一直紧靠着海岸线。

   left-winger Stewart hugged the touchline

   the car hugs the road, cornering neatly

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Denver Universal Spaceport was right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, hugging the Colorado Island coastline.
   • We took Highway 1 along the spectacular Pacific coast south of Monterey, the road hugging close to the cliffside.
   • The train crosses broad meadowlands before hugging the North Fork of the Payette River first on one side of the tracks, then on the other.
   • Because the coastguards needed to be able to investigate every cove and inlet along the way, the path hugs the coast closely.
   • It includes two passes over the classic Whaanga Coast test, which hugs the Tasman Sea coastline and is rated by many as the best stage in the entire championship.

   Synonyms

   keep close to, stay near to, follow closely, follow the course of
4. 1.4hug oneself Congratulate or be pleased with oneself.
   暗自庆幸；沾沾自喜
   she hugged herself with secret joy

   她暗自窃喜。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Your books, music and videos, the food in your fridge, the bass guitars, the pictures, they were all as I knew them, and I hugged myself with joy.
   • Audiences love being allowed in on mistakes; they hug themselves with joy.
   • How would the new tabloids, still hugging themselves over improved sales figures, cope?
   • I think the one person who should be hugging himself with glee is the Defence Secretary.
   • The mere promise of her approach is enough to have you hugging yourself with anticipation.
   • With this company, this will all change and the group hugging itself should whack a few pence on earnings per share.
   • It was winter, some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the light is crisp and clean, and I remember hugging myself with the knowledge that I was in New York and nowhere else.
   • Paul thanks her a little too heartily, and as he leaves, she sighs and hugs herself and says ‘He's such a nice guy.’
   • Predictably, the owners of the two multiplexes in Bangalore are hugging themselves in glee.
   • Rocky told me the night before that he would be back again in two days to see me, and I was mentally hugging myself at the thought of seeing him again.
   • ‘They're going to be so pleased,’ he thinks, hugging himself.
   • For a moment I just stood there, hugging myself with the realisation that I was here, and that I wasn't about to leave.
   • I ask kp if he'll be okay walking the red house way alone and he shrinks in his seat and hugs himself: ‘Do I look very vulnerable?’
   • I hugged myself with excitement as I finally told her the secret I'd been dying to tell her for the last few days.
   • There's just something about a bunch of people charging around the woods with plastic swords pretending to kill/be monsters that makes me hug myself with glee.
   • What a pathetic spectacle it all made, and I wouldn't be surprised if Chris still hugs himself with pleasure in moments of stress at the thought of those cosy conflabs with his new found friend!
   • She sits in a wooden chair and hugs herself as she recounts the woes that have overridden her simple life, and take away any sense of a future with even a small measure of security.
   • Though, admittedly, it is easier to hug yourself when you pull in 58 percent of the vote after facing a presidential recall initiative.
5. 1.5 Cherish or cling to (something such as a belief)
   抱有，持有，坚守（信念等）
   a boy hugging a secret

   坚守秘密的男孩。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Alone on her mountain, Deanna is hugging a secret.
   • He is proud of his ability to do this work by himself and tells about his day's routine — all the while hugging a secret that he will share with his family in the evening.

   Synonyms

   cling to, hold on to, cherish, harbour, nurture, nurse, foster, retain, maintain, keep in one's mind

1An act of holding someone tightly in one's arms, typically to express affection.

1. 1.1 A squeezing grip in wrestling.
   （摔跤中的）抓握
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The bear hug is a dominant position, with great control over the opponent, and is often a precursor to a takedown.
   • I will, for example grab my elder son around the neck and give him a wrestling hug but I will never do that with my daughters.