balked 的 3 个定义
- to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified: He balked at making the speech.
- to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
- Baseball. to commit a balk.
- to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
- Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
- a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
- a strip of land left unplowed.
- a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam.
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balked 近义词
thwart
stop short
更多balked例句
- Even so, at least one juror apparently balked at convicting a man for violating wildlife protection laws by protecting wildlife.
- If I balked at an act or found it difficult to perform, I was “punished” for my defiance (which is the nature of a BDSM scene).
- Gerawan consented, but after a few months at the table, UFW balked again.
- When Hayes balked at giving up her child, she claims Romney threatened she could be excommunicated if she refused.
- He initially balked, but they insisted and he was soon at Metropolitan Hospital.
- He seemed to intimate that he understood all that was passing in her mind, and was not balked by sprightly appearances.
- This was effected, and Louis Philippe was balked of his desire to interfere in Portugal to promote a reactionary policy.
- She had come suddenly upon the stone wall which had balked all her efforts.
- And so Marishka, once more balked in her enterprise, went back to the Harim.
- Cursing furiously, Wade drove him at it again, and again the gelding balked.