0 past simple and past participle of budge
1 If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move:
2 to change your opinion or to make someone change their opinion:
I've tried persuading her, but she won't budge.
If we had not budged, we would have been called "hard-hearted monsters".
Compared to the total stasis of the other big players, not one of whom budged an inch?
I have not budged one inch since last year.
He has stood by what he has decided and not budged an inch.
In fact, they have not budged since 1994.
He indicated that it had not budged an inch.
Having budged, we are called "pusillanimous people who run away".
But not a word of that argument has been taken in and not an inch has been budged.
