Synonyms of balk
- 1 Syllable
- crimp, shirk, mulct, cramp, shy, weald, lath, thwart, flinch, inc, beams
- 2 Syllables
- flinching, thwarted, timbers, lintel, letdowns, gagged, stymie, foiled, flinched, stymieing, retard, chagrins, hardwood, dodge, chagrin, recoils, staving, rafter, hinder, halted, perplex, demur, stickled, gagging, prevent, resist, nonplus, recoil, staved, stymied, scantling, letdown, timber, flinches, hinders, mulcting, mulcted, woodlot, thwarting, snooker, demurs, hog-tie, stave, lintels, desist, hogtied, rafters, hog-tied
- 3 Syllables
- preventing, declining, disobeying, nonplused, chagrining, evaded, evade, perplexes, intermit, disconcert, hindered, declined, disobey, retarding, chagrinned, evading, recoiled, dissenting, hampered, resiled, hampering, hindering, discommend, frustrate, resiling, objected, underwhelm, discomfit, demurring, nonplussed, refuse, resile, demurred, disappoint, frustrating, recoiling, snookered, disobeyed
- 4 Syllables
- discommended, cantilever, cantilevers, busybodied, interfered, temporizing, intermitting, discomfiting, discomfited, hesitate, hesitated, disconcerting, underwhelmed, temporize, temporized, anti-climax
- 5 Syllables
- disillusionment
- 6 Syllables
- go-one-on-one