"wrap one's arms around" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wraps one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapping one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapped one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapped one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "wrap one's arms around (third-person singular simple present wraps one's arms around, present participle wrapping one's arms around, simple past and past participle wrapped one's arms around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "get one's arms around"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Lasher, Practical Financial Management, page 382",
          "text": "The cost of capital is a \"big\" calculation. Many students have trouble wrapping their arms around it. It's therefore important to develop the whole idea before getting lost in the calculations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Deborah Todd, Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, page 185",
          "text": "Everyone on the production side thought it was great, but marketing couldn't wrap their arms around it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, page 198",
          "text": "The yet unnamed programmable game system project needed someone who could wrap their arms around it and champion it at the Atari Consumer offices down on Division Street in Campbell, California and Joe was also the perfect candidate for that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of get one's arms around"
      ],
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          "get one's arms around",
          "get one's arms around#English"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Alternative form of get one's arms around"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2018 Lions will 'wrap arms around Rayner': Fagan Brisbane Lions, 4 August 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.\n\"Chris Fagan said the Brisbane Lions would wrap their arms around Cam Rayner after the No.1 draft pick missed a golden chance to steal victory in the dying seconds against North Melbourne.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support (a person, etc), usually in a difficult time."
      ],
      "id": "en-wrap_one's_arms_around-en-verb-B7zaT~J-",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To support (a person, etc), usually in a difficult time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrap one's arms around"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wraps one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapping one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapped one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrapped one's arms around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wrap one's arms around (third-person singular simple present wraps one's arms around, present participle wrapping one's arms around, simple past and past participle wrapped one's arms around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "get one's arms around"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Lasher, Practical Financial Management, page 382",
          "text": "The cost of capital is a \"big\" calculation. Many students have trouble wrapping their arms around it. It's therefore important to develop the whole idea before getting lost in the calculations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Deborah Todd, Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, page 185",
          "text": "Everyone on the production side thought it was great, but marketing couldn't wrap their arms around it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, page 198",
          "text": "The yet unnamed programmable game system project needed someone who could wrap their arms around it and champion it at the Atari Consumer offices down on Division Street in Campbell, California and Joe was also the perfect candidate for that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of get one's arms around"
      ],
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        [
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          "get one's arms around#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Alternative form of get one's arms around"
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2018 Lions will 'wrap arms around Rayner': Fagan Brisbane Lions, 4 August 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.\n\"Chris Fagan said the Brisbane Lions would wrap their arms around Cam Rayner after the No.1 draft pick missed a golden chance to steal victory in the dying seconds against North Melbourne.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support (a person, etc), usually in a difficult time."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To support (a person, etc), usually in a difficult time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrap one's arms around"
}