Budge vs Persuade - What's the difference?
budge | persuade | Synonyms |
To move.
* Shakespeare
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
To move.
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
* Milton
(obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
* Milton
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
, title= To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
* (Bible), 2 (w) xviii. 32
* 1834 , (w),
(obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
* (Bible), (w) vi. 9
Budge is a synonym of persuade.
As verbs the difference between budge and persuade
is that budge is to move while persuade is .As an adjective budge
is (obsolete) brisk; stirring; jocund or budge can be (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.As a noun budge
is a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.budge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bouger.Alternative forms
* budg (obsolete)Verb
(budg)- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
- I'll not budge an inch, boy.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge , throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
- The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
Derived terms
* budge up * budgerSynonyms
* shiftEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge -gowns from off their backs.
Adjective
(-)- Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
Derived terms
* budge bachelor * budge barrel (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*persuade
English
Alternative forms
* perswade (obsolete)Verb
(persuad)- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
- We will persuade him, be it possible.
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
- Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:
- He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.
- Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.