abbracciare

to embrace

verb ahb-brah-CHAH-reh Rare

Also means

to hug

Usage Note

Abbracciare takes avere as its auxiliary. Beyond the physical sense it means to embrace an idea or a faith — abbracciare una causa (to embrace a cause). The noun is l'abbraccio (m), and the doubled 'cc' before 'i' is pronounced as a single affricate 'ch', so the spelling matches the phonetic rule for Italian.

Examples

"Ha abbracciato il figlio all'aeroporto."

Natural Translation

She hugged her son at the airport.

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