1syllable
balked
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Definitions ofbalked
1verb
- To pass over or by.
- To omit, miss or overlook by chance.
- To miss intentionally; to avoid.
- To stop, check, block.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
Example: "The horse balked."
- To refuse suddenly.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
Example: "to balk expectation"
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
1verb
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
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