budgeverb [ I or T ]
uk/bʌdʒ/us/bʌdʒ/budge verb [ I or T ] (MOVE)
If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move:
I've tried moving the desk but it won't budge/I can't budge it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- bus
- call for sb
- cargo
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- road haulage
- route
- shuffle
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
- turnaround
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Immobility
budge verb [ I or T ] (CHANGE)
to change your opinion or to make someone change their opinion:
I've tried persuading her, but she won't budge.
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Strong-willed
- a firm hand idiom
- adamant
- adamantine
- aggressive
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
- go-getter
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- hard-headed
- importunate
- pigheaded
- purposeful
- pushy
- ravening
- recalcitrant
- redoubtable
- will not take no for an answer idiom
- willful
- with guns blazing idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
budge up