Synonyms for budge
bʌdʒbudge

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1. budgeverb

   Synonyms:
   shift

2. budgeverb

   To move.

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

   Synonyms:
   shift

3. budgeverb

   To move.

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

   Synonyms:
   shift

4. budgeverb

   To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   Synonyms:
   shift

5. budgeverb

   To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

   Synonyms:
   shift

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1. Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budgeverb

   United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)

2. stir, shift, budge, agitateverb

   move very slightly

   "He shifted in his seat"

   Synonyms:
   fight, touch, shake up, charge, excite, arouse, put forward, raise up, shake, transfer, commove, tilt, vex, agitate, stir, call down, conjure, stimulate, switch, rouse, bring up, campaign, conjure up, reposition, invoke, raise, turn on, pitch, lurch, call forth, change over, careen, shift, wobble, dislodge, evoke, charge up, push, foment, crusade, change, press, stir up, disturb

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1. budgeverb

   Synonyms:
   stir, move, go

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "budge":

   move

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How to use budge in a sentence?

1. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes:

   If you never budge, don't expect a push.

2. Dan Ives:

   We believe Microsoft would only buy TikTok with its core algorithm which the Chinese government and ByteDance was not willing to budge.

3. Jomana Qaddour:

   The international community should treat this as a non-event. It's absolutely not changing the economic conditions on the ground. It's not changing the political conditions on the ground. Syrians are just as oppressed. They will be just as oppressed on Thursday as they are today. There's absolutely nothing that's changed or will change in their lives, the Assad regime and The Assad regime allies want to continue to affirm that they will not budge an inch despite everything the country has been through in the last ten years, despite the fact that they're trying to keep the country alive economically.

4. Michael Mina:

   The FDA doesn't really seem to be able to budge. The FDA is such The FDA.

5. Il Messaggero:

   We would never have voted for the (civil unions) if we had been told stripping out the 'stepchild' was temporary, pending a new law. We will absolutely not budge on this.