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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

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. Harry Tchilinguirian:

   Will they maintain cuts or go deeper? If OPEC doesn't budge, we'll see a significant stock build in the first half.

2. Eric Vercoutre:

   We will pursue our actions to make the French government budge, from midday Thursday we will carry out actions disrupting the tunnel.

3. Chris Snow:

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

4. Xavier Bertrand:

   The migrants, they want to travel to England, they know that you can work without papers in England. They are underpaid. As long as the English don't change the rules, we going to have problems, either the English budge, genuinely and seriously, or we give them back their border.

5. Chris Myers:

   Adam Budge early on in the investigation was the common link [between] the two overdoses.