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. John Catanzara:

   That is not because of the FOP, that is 100 % because of the mayor's unwillingness to budge from her hard line so whatever happens because of the manpower issue, that falls at the mayor's doorstep.

2. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes:

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

3. Chris Snow:

   I can't imagine the first-lien noteholders will budge on this.

4. Zhang Baohui:

   We're in for a difficult time...when it comes to the Paracels, China is not going to budge on what it sees as its absolute sovereign rights, we could see China acting more swiftly and decisively to anything it sees as a so-called provocation in the Paracels.

5. Randi Weingarten:

   Did parents ever get an apology from her? Of course not, because she doesn't think she did anything wrong. And even as mask mandates are being dropped everywhere, Weingarten is still refusing to budge.