Budge

Quick meaning: Budge is a verb meaning (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

Meaning

(intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.
2. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
3. (Upper Midwestern US, Indiana, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
4. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
5. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
6. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
7. (slang, obsolete) Alcoholic drink.

Example Sentences

Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.

I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.

The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.

I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.

Word Forms

• budges
• budging
• budged
• budg

Synonyms for budge

Depending on context, synonyms include shift, stir, agitate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stir, agitate, shift, move, succumb, recant.

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