Definition of "nudged" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of nudge. (verb)

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• "Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna."
• "Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent."
• "Then, fifteen years later, I had an encounter with a bear which once again nudged the old childhood passions back to the surface."