budge

About 1.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

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

2. verb To move; to shift from a fixed position.

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

3. verb To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.

4. verb To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

   Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!

5. verb To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. noun A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
7. adjective austere or stiff, like scholastics
8. noun Alcoholic drink.

Similar words

stir agitate shift move succumb recant cede relinquish yield touch

Often followed by

from an and the on it him until a

Word family

budged budges budging