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overhug

overhug verb: to hug excessively or too much.

Verb

overhug (third-person singular simple present overhugs, present participle overhugging, simple past and past participle overhugged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To hug excessively or too much.
    • There’ll be little campaigning on the hustings this season. For a politician who cherishes the connect, social distancing could be politically fatal; but for Biden, it could be a gift. He’ll have fewer chances to get carried away as he speaks, to overhug, to stick his foot in it (and he’s done...2020 August 15, Jeniffer Senior, “Learning to Love Joe Biden”, in The New York Times

Forms of overhug

third-person singular presentoverhugs
present participleoverhugging
past participleoverhugged
pastoverhugged

Origin of overhug

From over- + hug.

Questions about overhug

What does overhug mean?
Overhug means to hug excessively or too much.
What part of speech is overhug?
Overhug is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhug?
The past tense of overhug is overhugged.

Words near overhug in the dictionary

  1. overhopped
  2. overhot
  3. overhours
  4. overhouse
  5. overhovering
  6. overhug
  7. overhuge
  8. overhugged
  9. overhugging
  10. overhugs
  11. overhumanisation

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