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Synonyms for hug
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
a tight or amorous embrace
Come here and give me a big hug.
The true synonym
squeeze
Same sentence, swapped: Come here and give me a big squeeze.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for hug as it is used in the sentence above.
- wave
- mass
- nestle
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