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Synonyms for hug

The synonym for hug recorded in this bank is squeeze, in the sense "a tight or amorous embrace". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for hug

squeezenoun, in the sense "a tight or amorous embrace"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day hug is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineActions

a tight or amorous embrace

Come here and give me a big hug.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

squeeze

Same sentence, swapped: Come here and give me a big squeeze.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where hug turns up in the game

hug is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play hug

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hug reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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