overhug

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verb

To hug excessively or too much.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person overhugs · participle present overhugging · participle past overhugged · past overhugged

  1. ambitransitiveTo hug excessively or too much.
    1 more example

    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).

    2020 August 15, Jeniffer Senior, “Learning to Love Joe Biden”, in The New York Times

Origin

From over- + hug.

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APA

overhug. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overhug

MLA

“overhug.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overhug. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overhug,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overhug.

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