(v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
(v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.
(n.) A close embrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main areas of neurological status and behaviour which are affected by obstetric conditions are lability of states, alertness, orientation, habituation, activity, hand to mouth activity, defensive movements, head control and resistance to cuddle.
(2) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
(3) But of course, he misses cuddles from his mum,” Johnson said.
(4) I feel creatively stifled by the BBC every single day - but I'm a writer and 'creatively stifled' counts as anything short of an instant series commission, a guaranteed second series, a cuddle, a guaranteed third series, and a whispered invitation back to 'my place' (where I'll explain that really I've got a five-series arc in mind, and a spin-off.)
(5) She's making the exact same noise, at the exact same volume, that rabbits do when you cuddle them a little bit too hard.
(6) This, he writes, is "the fundamental consumerist delusion – that other people care more about the artificial products you display through consumerist spending than about the natural traits you display through normal conversation, cooperation, and cuddles."
(7) For instance, being cuddled, played with and generally well cared for by your parents is powerfully associated with fewer social and emotional problems in later life.
(8) The mode of transmission to babies is not from cuddling or handling.
(9) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
(10) Alongside his all-action posts of wrestling crocodiles and cuddling tigers, Kadyrov has issued a heartfelt plea for help finding his missing cat.
(11) In being coerced to kiss or cuddle someone they don't want to, that child is being told that how they feel, what they want to do with their own bodies, doesn't really matter.
(12) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
(13) Three distinctive interactional patterns presenting adaptational challenges are discussed: the family's adaptation to the child's hyperactivity, the family's adaptation to the child's avoidance of contact and cuddling from early infancy, and perceived incompatibility between the child's personality and the parents' style.
(14) "But it's just Heartbeat with an umbilical hernia," bleat the unbelievers, pinching their delicate nosey-woses at the sight of steaming prolapses and swatting away the cuddles and godliness with their Game Of Thrones box sets.
(15) I always felt a bit sorry for her biological children Mark and Carol, wondering from whom they would get their cuddles.
(16) The treatment was given on cue and consisted of rocking, cuddling, visual and verbal interaction, and non-nutritive sucking to satiety.
(17) He then told her "to cuddle him like she would one of her teddies".
(18) Babies cry for lots of reasons – tiredness, a dirty nappy, wind, being too hot or cold, wanting a cuddle, being bored or overstimulated.
(19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
(20) Zuckerberg recently set up a page for his dog Beast , including photographs and details such as his personal interests ("cuddling, loving, eating").
Warmth
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
(n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.
(n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(2) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(3) A lot of people of people will watch closely how Merkel conducts herself.” “Finding the right measure of warmth and distance won’t be easy,” Der Spiegel wrote.
(4) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(5) After the warmth of 2014, surface temperatures may now accelerate again.
(6) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
(7) It is concluded that the nerve fibres signalling warmth are the smaller delta fibres or non-myelinated fibres or both.
(8) This study was conducted to identify patients' preferences for nurse's nonverbal expressions of warmth.
(9) Pain and loss of motion in the affected joint were prominent, but toxic features of pyogenic infections--hectic fever, chills, sweats, local warmth, or erythema--were conspicuously absent.
(10) The present paper reports that the body and brain temperature of 5-day-old pups covaried under steady-state thermal conditions, cold exposure, and warmth exposure (Expt.
(11) One important result of the workshop was the warmth and the esprit de corps that was felt afterwards.
(12) One of my clients is suffering from malnutrition, and is under the care of the mental health crisis team, who sometimes arrange for him to spend time as an inpatient on a psychiatric ward so that he can get some food and warmth."
(13) It started with her surprise appearance onstage at last year's party conference, and the winning fluency and warmth with which she introduced her husband.
(14) However, this growing concern did not apparently cool the warmth of the welcome given to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in Beijing on Tuesday.
(15) Family variables included measures of cohesion and conflict, provision of cognitive stimulation, parental warmth and affection, quality of the residential environment, and openness with the interviewer.
(16) Harry was such an amazing character, so full of life, warmth and plans for the future.
(17) There was a significant difference in favour of Amipaque in the discomfort of the patients--less pain and sensation of warmth.
(18) Measures of communication deviance and of activity, balance and warmth, derived from two family activities, correlated significantly with 3-yr. follow-up adaptive functioning, measured by IQ.
(19) Scores from the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory indicate significant main effects for both subjects' warmth and the therapist's facilitative behaviors.
(20) It is that excess heat that has accumulated over decades thanks to rising levels of greenhouse gases that accounts for the bulk of this year’s record warmth, with El Niño providing only a small boost.