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budge up

budge up verb: to move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.

Verb

budge up (third-person singular simple present budges up, present participle budging up, simple past and past participle budged up)

  1. (UK, informal, intransitive) To move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.
    • ‘Budge up, yeh great lump,’ said the stranger.1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

budge up meaning in Malayalam

budge up in Malayalam

move up, move over, shift up
ഒതുങ്ങിക്കൊടുക്കുക, ഇടംനല്കുക, നീങ്ങിയിരിക്കുക, മാറിയിരിക്കുക, സൗകര്യമുണ്ടാക്കിക്കൊടുക്കുക, സ്ഥലമുണ്ടാക്കുക

Synonyms of budge up

Forms of budge up

third-person singular presentbudges up
present participlebudging up
past participlebudged up
pastbudged up

Questions about budge up

What does budge up mean?
Budge up means to move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.
What is budge up in Malayalam?
Budge up in Malayalam is ഒതുങ്ങിക്കൊടുക്കുക, ഇടംനല്കുക, നീങ്ങിയിരിക്കുക. See Budge up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is budge up?
Budge up is a verb.
What is the past tense of budge up?
The past tense of budge up is budged up.

Words near budge up in the dictionary

  1. budge bachelors
  2. budge barrel
  3. budge barrels
  4. Budge Budge
  5. budge the needle
  6. budge up
  7. budgeable
  8. budged
  9. budged an inch
  10. budged the needle
  11. budged up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: budge up (page history and authors); budge up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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