snuggle
verb [I usually + adv/prep] /ˈsnʌɡ.l̩/Definition
› to move yourself into a warm and comfortable position, especially one in which your body is against another person or covered by something: The children snuggled up to their mother to get warm. I was just snuggling down into my warm duvet when my phone rang.Comfortable and uncomfortable
(Definition of snuggle verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- be/feel at home idiom
- civilization noun (DEVELOPED SOCIETY)
- comfort zone noun
- comfortable adjective (CLOTHES/FURNITURE)
- comfortably adverb
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- cosy adjective (COMFORTABLE)
- cozily adverb
- ergonomics noun
- hunker down phrasal verb
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