Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fudge
Participle: fudged
Gerund: fudging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fudge |
| you | fudge |
| he;she;it | fudges |
| we | fudge |
| you | fudge |
| they | fudge |
Perfect
| I | have fudged |
| you | have fudged |
| he;she;it | has fudged |
| we | have fudged |
| you | have fudged |
| they | have fudged |
Past
| I | fudged |
| you | fudged |
| he;she;it | fudged |
| we | fudged |
| you | fudged |
| they | fudged |
Pluperfect
| I | had fudged |
| you | had fudged |
| he;she;it | had fudged |
| we | had fudged |
| you | had fudged |
| they | had fudged |
Future
| I | will fudge |
| you | will fudge |
| he;she;it | will fudge |
| we | will fudge |
| you | will fudge |
| they | will fudge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fudged |
| you | will have fudged |
| he;she;it | will have fudged |
| we | will have fudged |
| you | will have fudged |
| they | will have fudged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fudge |
| you | fudge |
| he;she;it | fudge |
| we | fudge |
| you | fudge |
| they | fudge |
Perfect
| I | have fudged |
| you | have fudged |
| he;she;it | have fudged |
| we | have fudged |
| you | have fudged |
| they | have fudged |
Imperfect
| I | fudged |
| you | fudged |
| he;she;it | fudged |
| we | fudged |
| you | fudged |
| they | fudged |
Pluperfect
| I | had fudged |
| you | had fudged |
| he;she;it | had fudged |
| we | had fudged |
| you | had fudged |
| they | had fudged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fudge |
| you | would fudge |
| he;she;it | would fudge |
| we | would fudge |
| you | would fudge |
| they | would fudge |
Perfect
| I | would have fudged |
| you | would have fudged |
| he;she;it | would have fudged |
| we | would have fudged |
| you | would have fudged |
| they | would have fudged |
Imperative
| you | fudge |
| we | Let's fudge |
| you | fudge |
Verbs conjugated like 'fudge'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fudge'
budge,
fadge,
fidge,
fudgel,
judge,
nudge,
badge,
bludge,
bodge,
budg,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Sample Sentences
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When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
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The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
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I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
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Do you fudge your age?
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Llama 4, which was released in April 2025, was a flop, and the company was accused of gaming benchmarks to make it look more impressive. [Yann] LeCun admits that the “results were fudged a little bit”, and the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results. [2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:]
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Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell! [2000 January 21, Jesse Friedman, “get your wu-name now...”, in alt.music.ween (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025:]
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I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em. [2001 September 20, Aerogram, “Things That Irritate A Sane Person”, in alt.worst.of.usenet (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025:]
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"Who the fudge are you?" ("Fudge" is not the word he uses but you get the idea.) / We say, "We're with CNN." / "I don't like the fudging media," is his reply. "Who are you supposed to be with?" (It's the first time he hasn't used the "fudge" word in a sentence.) [2002 March 15, Martin Savidge, “An uphill battle”, in CNN.com, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2002:]
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>>To what are you refering to exactly?.
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>to how I fucked your mother
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I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her. [2002 September 13, T, “boy, i've never heard so many retards in my life!”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025:]