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BUDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Synonyms:
Budge; Don Budge; John Donald Budge
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they budge ... he / she / it budges
Past simple: budged
Past participle: budged
-ing form: budging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move very slightly
Example:
He shifted in his seat
Synonyms:
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
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)
