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Balk /bɔːk/

📖 Verb 🔥 advanced

Definitions

📝 Hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking.

🇮🇳 हिचकना / अनिच्छुक होना

💡 Simple: To refuse to do something because it seems difficult or wrong.

He balked at the idea of working on a Sunday.

🔄 Word Forms

balked (past) balking (present)

✅ Synonyms

❌ Antonyms

🔗 Collocations

balk at the price balk at the prospect

🔀 Related Words

📍 Usage Context

Business, sports (baseball), and daily decisions.

📚 Grammar Notes

Commonly followed by the preposition 'at'.

From Old English 'balca' (ridge/boundary).

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