He disregards his wife every time she asks to cuddle.
Source: tatoeba (717976)
Cuddle
/ˈkʌd.l̩/
Synonyms for "cuddle" (59 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
Related word relations
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More general
16 entriesMore specific
5 entriesCollocations
10 entriesaffectionate cuddlebear hugcuddle blanketcuddle gesturecuddle habitcuddle partnercuddle sessiongentle cuddleinfant cuddlewarm cuddle
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
7 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 28 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- գգվել verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Bulgarian
2 entries- прегръщам verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- притискам се verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Catalan
1 entries- acaronar verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 依偎 verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- 偎抱 verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- 摟抱 /搂抱 verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- 擁抱 /拥抱 verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Czech
4 entries- mazlit se verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- objímat se verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- přitulit se verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- tulit se verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Danish
2 entries- knuse verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- kæle verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Dutch
1 entries- knuffelen verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Esperanto
2 entries- karespremi verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- knufli verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Finnish
1 entries- halailla verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
French
1 entries- câliner verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Georgian
1 entries- გულში იკრავს verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
German
2 entries- knuddeln verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- kuscheln verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִתְכַּרְבֵּל verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Hungarian
1 entries- összebújik verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Icelandic
1 entries- kúra verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Indonesian
1 entries- berpelukan verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Irish
1 entries- deasaigh isteach verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Italian
1 entries- coccolare verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Japanese
1 entries- 寄り添う verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- knuddelen verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- kuschelen verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Polish
3 entries- miziać się verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- przytulać się verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- przytulić się verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Portuguese
2 entries- acariciar verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- afagar verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Russian
4 entries- жа́ться verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- обнима́ться verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- обня́ться verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- прижа́ться verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- máziti verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- ма́зити verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Spanish
4 entries- abrazar verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- acorrucarse verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- acurrucarse verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- apurruñarse verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Swedish
3 entries- gosa verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- kela verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- vänslas verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ôm ấp verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Welsh
2 entries- anwesu verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
- cofleidio verb (embrace, lie together snugly)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Couldn't we cuddle, instead?
Source: tatoeba (926817)
Mary asked Tom to give her a cuddle.
Source: tatoeba (3714643)
May I cuddle you?
Source: tatoeba (5556489)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.