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budge

The correct spelling is budge.

How to pronounce budge

/bʌdʒ/
verb

IPA: /bʌdʒ/

Say it like: Buj

The correct spelling is budge. To move. For example: "I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch."

Usage Examples

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

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.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To move.
  2. 2.To move.
  3. 3.To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
  4. 4.(Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
  5. 5.To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

adjective

  1. 1.Brisk; stirring; jocund.
  2. 2.Austere or stiff, like scholastics

noun

  1. 1.A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

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