Synonyms for nudge
nʌdʒnudge

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1. nudge, jogverb

   a slight push or shake

   Synonyms:
   jog, lope, trot

2. nudge, poke at, prodverb

   to push against gently

   "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant"

   Synonyms:
   poke, jab, prod, stab, dig, incite, poke at, egg on

3. nudgeverb

   push into action by pestering or annoying gently

   Synonyms:
   prod, poke at

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1. • Push

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1. nudgeverb

   Synonyms:
   push gently

2. nudgenoun

   Synonyms:
   gentle push

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1. nudgeverb

   Synonyms:
   poke (with the elbow)

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1. List of paraphrases for "nudge":

   push

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How to use nudge in a sentence?

1. Tarisai Githu:

   State senators Eric Barlow and Lynn Hutchings sat down with us and listened to our story, we asked them to nudge the Gillette Police and the FBI to see if they have any information they can share with the family. We want to know – is the case cold? Is there something they know? They haven’t told us anything.

2. California Democratic consultant Robb Korinke:

   If I've got an orange and a lime, and you tell me, I'm going to squeeze every ounce of juice out of this lime and then just give the orange a kind of a nudge and hope that less than half the juice comes out -- that's kind of what they're looking at, because there's twice as many Democrats as Republicans in California. Even if you put all the independents, the third parties and so forth together with the Republicans, you would barely edge out the Democratic registration.

3. Behrouz Hariri:

   Often a very small movement or a very gentle push will stop the snoring. The problem is that it is very likely that after a few minutes they will start snoring again and nobody has the patience to continuously overnight just nudge or push their partner very gently to stop their snoring.

4. Augusto Maxwell:

   The older rules were nudge-nudge, wink-wink. These rules are very clear.

5. Jamal Khashoggi:

   The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.