What are the antonyms for BALK?
- goad, facilitate, face, advantage, stimulant, benefit, support, assist, aid, abet, meet, permit, stimulus, let go, break, accept, lose, inspirit, advance, handmaiden, help, spur, assistance, ok, impetus, edge, catalyst, boost, allow, encourage, promote, surrender, incentive.
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Synonyms for BALK
- Downs,
- deign,
- pulling back,
- grand slam,
- Forgone,
- react,
- ill humor,
- stutter,
- steering clear of,
- gives ground,
- disinclination,
- pause,
- get to,
- take law into own hands,
- pass on,
- be reluctant,
- Reprobated,
- disconcert,
- bring to an end,
- not listening,
- recalcitrate,
- steal,
- Refusing,
- holds back,
- forgoing,
- psyched out,
- shuffle off,
- disenchanting,
- hardwoods,
- halt,
- putting on hold,
- pulled back,
- stickle,
- turned away,
- heads off,
- keep lid on,
- stand still,
- nixing,
- hindrance,
- put stop to,
- say nothing doing,
- hardwood,
- Shying,
- Forfend,
- turned aside,
- crushings,
- double cross,
- slow up,
- put a stop to,
- discorded,
- shirk,
- plank,
- interfering with,
- triple,
- hog-tie,
- shrink from,
- tie one's hands,
- fretfulness,
- run rings around,
- be remiss,
- interfering,
- nonplus,
- prevent,
- put up an argument,
- mucking,
- delay,
- beating around the bush,
- unearned,
- baulk,
- Discommend,
- shy away,
- timberlands,
- thought about,
- intermediating,
- turn down,
- beat,
- do out of,
- worsted,
- fight shy of something,
- welsh,
- stop,
- drop anchor,
- throw monkey wrench in,
- hesitate,
- keep distance,
- nose out,
- bolt from the blue,
- pinch-hit,
- Parried,
- Negatived,
- beat around the bush,
- dashing hopes,
- leadoff,
- slowed up,
- put the lid on,
- hobble,
- mixed in,
- passing on,
- dash one's hope,
- woodlot,
- counter-plot,
- base,
- double play,
- box score,
- Garroted,
- got involved,
- disappointment,
- hr,
- overstep,
- Railed,
- Shied,
- thinks about,
- break rules,
- slow down,
- put up fight,
- Blanked,
- closing down,
- hit-and-run,
- upset the apple cart,
- foul line,
- interfered with,
- retardates,
- retardate,
- underwhelm,
- throw for loop,
- by-passing,
- lay low,
- reprobates,
- hold off,
- Counterplotted,
- shies,
- gag,
- crosspieces,
- turn thumbs down,
- gets to,
- go-one-on-one,
- put an end to,
- dashed hopes,
- Juke,
- neutralize,
- put lid on,
- baffle,
- put up a fight,
- throw a curve,
- beg the question,
- Bogging,
- cause setback,
- call a day,
- intermeddled,
- lintel,
- queered,
- hogtie,
- beg to be excused,
- drop,
- turn aside,
- drag one's feet,
- remonstrate,
- homer,
- pilings,
- Intermeddling,
- give the slip,
- buffaloed,
- shakes off,
- Counterplotting,
- fly,
- cease fire,
- mixed with,
- give the runaround,
- fastball,
- get around,
- standing up,
- scruples,
- strike out,
- intermit,
- INCS,
- go counter to,
- lead on a merry chase,
- dueled,
- by-passed,
- cool it,
- give ground,
- put up argument,
- taking aback,
- discontinue,
- evade,
- stood up,
- unbalancing,
- bombshell,
- giving ground,
- go back on,
- rafter,
- curve ball,
- Muddy Waters,
- pop up,
- Stammered,
- dropping anchor,
- foul,
- ground out,
- letdown,
- handcuff,
- crossbars,
- duelling,
- mix with,
- closed down,
- drag feet,
- hardball,
- not show,
- wince,
- takes aback,
- timberland,
- getting around,
- Inc,
- wealds,
- shake off,
- turn away,
- steer clear of,
- dance around an issue,
- obtrude,
- inced,
- have no fight left,
- Laths,
- be set,
- traverse,
- fool with,
- disappoint,
- Intermitted,
- snarl up,
- Stickled,
- tap dancing,
- disobey,
- Bogged,
- sneak away,
- at-bat,
- passed up,
- double-header,
- dash,
- mixed up with,
- say not a chance,
- left field,
- scotches,
- outfield,
- be displeased,
- sacrifice,
- upset apple cart,
- hinder,
- fall short of,
- hang up,
- Blanking,
- circumvent,
- counterplot,
- stall,
- not think of,
- sill,
- Stickling,
- think twice,
- Negativing,
- shrink,
- nip,
- beam,
- fending off,
- handicap,
- back off,
- beat the system,
- blow whistle on,
- fall down on,
- raise objection,
- shy,
- gave in,
- Reprobating,
- fall flat,
- dithering,
- worm one's way out of,
- stymie,
- stickles,
- Intermitting,
- beg off,
- bollixed,
- passes on,
- give the run around,
- right field,
- hang fire,
- be unwilling,
- bollixing,
- single,
- mound,
- render null and void,
- interfere with,
- dash hopes,
- leave in lurch,
- ballpark,
- mulct,
- cross,
- throw off balance,
- diamond,
- intermeddles,
- squeeze play,
- by-passes,
- withdraw from agreement or statement,
- standing still,
- cross bar,
- break off,
- ball,
- crimp,
- cork up,
- home run,
- forestall,
- leash,
- first base,
- misfortunes,
- closed off,
- taking exception,
- busybodied,
- resist,
- hinders,
- home,
- up set,
- Scotched,
- pay no attention to,
- fly in face of,
- founders,
- be in no hurry,
- Revolutionizing,
- cantilever,
- cramp style,
- grudge,
- Mutinied,
- baseball,
- squash,
- cramp,
- closing off,
- lintels,
- Withdrew,
- slam,
- stall for time,
- passed on,
- walk,
- Flinched,
- caves in,
- crosspiece,
- falter,
- bat,
- quit,
- bring to screeching halt,
- ball boy,
- thinking twice,
- counteract,
- corked up,
- weald,
- get in the way,
- decline,
- doublecross,
- skunked,
- not heeded,
- bombshells,
- stringer,
- slowed down,
- mutiny,
- step back,
- refuse,
- Transgressed,
- run circles around,
- Intermeddle,
- queers,
- By-pass,
- deterrent,
- disenchants,
- flinch,
- two-by-four,
- wind up,
- double,
- snarled up,
- corked,
- pull back,
- retreating,
- back down,
- skunking,
- setting aside,
- discording,
- poke nose in,
- turning aside,
- obstruct,
- beat down,
- throws off balance,
- psych out,
- out wit,
- garrotes,
- inning,
- come to nothing,
- take wind out of sails,
- thwart,
- forest,
- caving in,
- blow the whistle on,
- not hear of,
- frustrate,
- close off,
- discomfit,
- rbi,
- dead-end,
- laid low,
- choked off,
- over turn,
- wait,
- put on back burner,
- beat around bush,
- Scotching,
- ball girl,
- scantling,
- chagrin,
- Squashing,
- give up,
- bollix,
- Buffaloes,
- check,
- bar,
- Garroting,
- bring to end,
- throw into tizzy,
- run,
- infield,
- give the run-around,
- queering,
- woodlots,
- sinker,
- mucked,
- line drive,
- send regrets,
- call it a day,
- tag,
- tongue tie,
- strikeout,
- cross-piece,
- impediment,
- retire,
- spitball,
- interfere,
- strike,
- intermediated,
- mix it up with,
- abandon,
- dashed hope,
- dissent,
- cast down,
- got to,
- mix up with,
- intermediates,
- Hesitated,
- dithered,
- mess with one's head,
- desist,
- sills,
- ground ball,
- getting to,
- recoil,
- defeat,
- play off,
- timber,
- frown,
- don't buy,
- bring to naught,
- box in,
- crossbar,
- cramp one's style,
- tape up,
- bottlenecked,
- snooker,
- come to an end,
- casting down,
- garrote,
- top,
- stave,
- not listen,
- Winced,
- dead-ends,
- thinking about,
- object,
- Forbore,
- sound off,
- home plate,
- go one on one,
- Worsting,
- disillusionment,
- not mind,
- snafued,
- choke off,
- buffalo,
- disillusionments,
- not heed,
- say no way,
- bunt,
- left,
- interferes with,
- pussyfoot,
- spring training,
- close down,
- keep the lid on,
- ward off,
- repel,
- batboy,
- hangs fire,
- hamper,
- turns away,
- Preventing,
- tongue-tie,
- downing,
- foil,
- defend against,
- bottlenecking,
- ill-humor,
- insurrect,
- weasel,
- blow,
- cantilevers,
- not accepted,
- outwitting,
- stand up,
- think about,
- Jukes,
- cave in,
- hold at bay,
- sit on fence,
- upset one's apple cart,
- take wind out of,
- infringe,
- HIT,
- pulls back,
- throw a monkey wrench into,
- rubber,
- put off,
- curve,
- scruple,
- rise in arms,
- hanging fire,
- not accept,
- cease,
- turning away,
- wimp out,
- have/want no truck with,
- take exception,
- lath,
- put end to,
- played off,
- spurn,
- Floundered,
- snookered,
- perplex,
- muddy the waters,
- not heeding,
- resile,
- checkmate,
- out,
- rattle one's cage,
- get involved,
- make a stink,
- demur,
- embitter,
- choking off,
- scorn,
- bring to standstill,
- took aback,
- back pedal,
- prohibit,
- corking up,
- grousing,
- fly ball,
- grounder,
- mitt,
- stump,
- corking,
- shellac,
- give run around,
- downed,
- scantlings,
- mix in,
- boxes in,
- catch,
- temporize,
- stringers,
- groused,
- Paused,
- Dueling,
- dodge,
- beat out of,
- jib,
- fly in the face of,
- pitch,
- put on hold,
- ruin,
- put a cork in,
- go against,
- bullpen,
- be irresolute,
- ruin prospects,
- disenchant,
- baseline,
- balk,
- slip out,
- begging the question,
- pop fly,
- take aback,
- pass up,
- park.
Usage Examples for BALK
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Somehow Frank divined that Bascomb intended to secure Davis for his fag, and he resolved to balk the bully in this. - "Frank Merriwell's Chums" by Burt L. Standish
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" Cornet Leslie is not one to balk any man's desire that way," Colonel Hume said gravely. - "Bonnie Prince Charlie A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden" by G. A. Henty
