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Balking

verb
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo pass over or by.
2.verbTo omit, miss or overlook by chance.
3.verbTo miss intentionally; to avoid.
4.verbTo stop, check, block.
5.verbTo stop short and refuse to go on.
"The horse balked."
6.verbTo refuse suddenly.
7.verbTo disappoint; to frustrate.
"to balk expectation"
8.verbTo engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
9.verbTo leave or make balks in.
10.verbTo leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
11.verbTo indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
12.nounA frustration or disappointment; a check.

Synonyms

avoidrefuseshirkshunbafflefoilfrustratethwartmissoverlookbalkyintractable

Rhymes With

mockingshockingstalkingdockinggawkingsquawkingknockingtalking
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