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- Dictionarybalk/bɔː(l)k/
verb
- 1. hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking: "he balked at such a drastic solution" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a roughly squared timber beam: "a balk of timber"
- 2. the area on a billiard table between the balk line and the bottom cushion, within which in some circumstances a ball is protected from a direct stroke.
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BALK definition: 1. to be unwilling to do something or to allow something to happen: 2. in baseball, to stop in the…. Learn more.
The meaning of BALK is to refuse abruptly —used with at. How to use balk in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Balk.
Balk definition: to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at). See examples of BALK used in a sentence.
If you balk at your mother's suggestion that you take on more responsibility, you're saying no to added chores. To balk means to refuse to go along with. A donkey balks when it refuses to move forward.
balk in British English. or baulk (bɔːk , bɔːlk ) verb. 1. (intransitive; usually foll by at) to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib. the horse balked at the jump. 2. (intransitive; foll by at) to turn away abruptly; recoil. he balked at the idea of murder.
BALK meaning: 1. to be unwilling to do something or to allow something to happen: 2. in baseball, to stop in the…. Learn more.
1. To check or thwart by or as if by an obstacle. 2. Archaic To let go by; miss. n. 1. A hindrance, check, or defeat. 2. Sports An incomplete or misleading motion, especially an illegal move made by a baseball pitcher. 3. Games One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table. 4. a. An unplowed strip of land. b.