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 Yet even after decades of mass shootings, federal gun policy has barely budged. — Jillian Turanovic, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Of course, there is the possibility that, even faced with these new costs, Putin will still refuse to budge. — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2026 But Vaccarello, like Hedi Slimane before him, would not budge. — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026 Steve Sarkisian will not budge on this issue One of the primary reasons Manning chose to attend Texas was Sarkisian. — Mac Engel october 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for budge

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Verb

Short enough to read in a single sitting, Sara Gran’s chilling story of an architect succumbing to demonic possession will leave readers stunned and unsettled.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 23 Oct. 2026
The city’s Medical Examiner ruled the victim’s death a homicide after determining Wong succumbed to stab wounds to his neck and torso.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of succumb

Verb

Election forecaster Cook Political Report shifted Ohio’s gubernatorial race toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton on Friday after a week of backlash over an ad Republican Vivek Ramaswamy ran featuring her estranged mother.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026
Miller points out that the numbers are extremely volatile, and could shift big time by election day.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of shift

Verb

The full court reheard the case in January 2024, and in October 2024 ruled 9-8 that the NLRB had no power to order the tweet removed, citing the First Amendment.

— Heather Occhino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, according to a USFWS spokesperson, around 30 million lbs of invasive carp are removed from Midwestern waters each year.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of remove

Verb

Fielder is not conventionally attractive, concedes Breca, a 26-year-old bisexual man in Pennsylvania, but the filmmaker’s salt-and-pepper hair and stubble did something for Breca nonetheless.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Vena said the current task is proving service is strong enough to hold customers trying rail, simultaneously conceding that not all will stay.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of concede

Verb

The next president may well also have more power to purchase equity stakes; legislation moving through the Senate would give the Pentagon explicit legal authority to do so.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is moving forward with a $4 million investment to run an ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s estranged mother after the video received fierce backlash.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of move

Verb

In the 1960s, archaeologists carried out a massive project to dismantle and relocate the temple, moving it out of the path of rising waters created by the Aswan High Dam.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Somewhere down the line, Sheridan relocated and retitled the show.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of relocate

Verb

Trump has been criticized in the past for voting by mail despite his long history of railing against that method of submitting ballots.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
The Finnish firm Posiva will also need to submit periodic safety assessments every decade.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of submit

Verb

Those tankers transfer oil to other tankers waiting in the Gulf of Oman for shipment to customers in Asia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
A lot of uncertainty remains in the lift capacity of Starship, as well as in how much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit and how efficient the process of transferring propellants from one ship to another will be.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

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