budge
verb (used without object)
to move slightly; begin to move.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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There was no way the padlock was budging.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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