overhug

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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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 quite a bit of that already)."

From over- + hug.

overhugs (present, singular) overhugging (participle, present) overhugged (participle, past) overhugged (past)

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