budge

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From French bouger.

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budge (third-person singular simple present budges, present participle budging, simple past and past participle budged)

  1. (intransitive) To move.
    I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
  2. (transitive) To move.
    I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
  3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
  4. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

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