Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of balking
- a young man with big dreams who refused to be balked by the many challenges he faced in making them a reality
barring, blocking, clogging, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)
arresting, checking, halting, setting back, short-circuiting, stalling, stopping
averting, forestalling, obviating, precluding, preventing
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