Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not moving or willing to move.
  • adjective Not changing or willing to change from a position or belief.

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  • adjective Refusing to budge.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ budging

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Examples

  • The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • On a similarly skeptical note, Jeff Cohen, writing at the Huffington Post, notes Hillary Clinton's unbudging popularity despite the lack of netroots support and asks if the netroots are simply a paper tiger.

    Daily Digest: 9/6/07 2007

  • Then I feel my arm bend unnaturally in the unbudging grip of the chockstone.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • Then I feel my arm bend unnaturally in the unbudging grip of the chockstone.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • Then I feel my arm bend unnaturally in the unbudging grip of the chockstone.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

  • Then I feel my arm bend unnaturally in the unbudging grip of the chockstone.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court.

    United States v. Leonard Peltier Doctorow, E.L. 2000

  • While SAB has managed to enter the Nairobi market, KBL has found Pretoria's attitude less sober and unbudging.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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