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BUDGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)play

Synonyms:

Budge; Don Budge; John Donald Budge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they budge  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it budges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: budged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: budged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: budging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

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Meaning:

Move very slightlyplay

Example:

He shifted in his seat

Synonyms:

agitate; budge; shift; stir

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "budge" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water, and since, pull as I liked, I could not budge the downhall, that was the extent of what I could accomplish.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This was a great relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist itself into a grin one morning, when François forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Budge, you skulk!” cried Pew.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)




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