BUDGE Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

budge

verb

Definition of budge

as in to succumb

to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control) despite hours of intense pressure, she refused to budge from her position

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as in to shift

to change one's position he finally budged from his beach blanket when the tide started swirling up around him

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as in to remove

to change the place or position of the bureau was so heavy that two people couldn't budge it

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Recent Examples of budge Anything less would add to Iran’s economic pain but not enough to budge its strategic calculus. — Yash Roy, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026 But an oddly stable job market, a strong stock market and home prices that refuse to budge seem to help most Californians feel better about their wallets. — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 Aug. 2026 But, nationally, the share of kindergarteners who received vaccine exemptions has risen less than one per cent since Kennedy took office, and the measles-vaccination rate has hardly budged. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026 Most ink and permanent marker stains won’t budge without the help of a solvent. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for budge

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The New Jersey native succumbed to organ failure that led to cardiac arrest, the New York Times reported Friday.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
The inherent challenge in making films dealing with progressive illness is not succumbing to an inescapably formulaic structure that can’t help but go with the territory.

— Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of succumb

Verb

Lamont has dismissed Fazio’s proposals as merely shifting costs from utility bills onto tax bills.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
In a memo released Wednesday about last-minute changes for her 2027 budget proposal, Levine Cava wrote that 19 employees staffing the volunteer county boards would be shifted to a different department.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of shift

Verb

The reactor would produce substantial heat that engineers must remove from the vehicle.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
For instance, Microsoft has committed not to use sensitive data that many companies leverage, such as information about gender, race, age, ZIP code that can be used to identify a person even if their name is removed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of remove

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Purdue held both Indiana State‘s and Wake Forest’s starting running backs to less than four yards per carry, and has conceded just two rushing touchdowns to those starters this season.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
As the plot progresses, there are constant digs at Google Maps and Apple Maps for conceding to Trump’s order.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of concede

Verb

The helicopter moves quickly away from the bus crash site and starts losing altitude.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Duarte’s writing features detailed prose and a moving storyline, encompassing grief, healing, and the losses borne by a Latinx family in the name of American patriotism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of move

Verb

Understandably not wanting summer camp to end, Jacob hatches a plot to make a break for it and relocate to an old, similarly Jewish camp that was left abandoned decades ago.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Wang’s film adapts Tanizaki Junichiro’s novel of the same name, relocating the story to present-day Tokyo, with Fan starring opposite Lily Franky and Kudoh Youki.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of relocate

Verb

This allows fresh dopant molecules to continue transferring electrons and increases the concentration of mobile charges in the semiconductor.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Based on a 1906 German expressionist play by Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening would transfer to Broadway and win two Tony Awards for Sheik’s original score and orchestrations.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026

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