baulked's Usage Examples:

Having already stated that they would only pay a sensible amount for the club, the group was thought to have baulked at the suggestion that the Glazers' valuation of the club was significantly higher than the amount they were willing to pay.

Defending champion Taylors Sky was well placed when being baulked.

believed, would make further attempts to take the life of which he had been baulked.

O'Kelly, who became president in June 1945, had a more fraught relationship with McDunphy and frequently baulked at following McDunphy's rules.

Michael Schumacher pulled away from the slower car of Ralf Schumacher who baulked his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, until his second pit stop on the 44th.

having to overcome a number of obstacles that lesser drivers would have baulked at.

Galtee Cleo to the first bend; Galtee Cleo swung wide as expected and was baulked and also interfered with others including Glittering Look who was going.

Ballylanigan Tanist and Endless Gossip, the former broke well but was badly baulked by Murex of Munster ending his chances to qualify, Endless Gossip missed.

It set off in the morning to the trials, but on the takeoff run, baulked by a small boat, the aircraft began porpoising and was wrecked.

He was a right-foot kick who baulked and turned well, and had all the requirements of a top-class rover.

a falling rival in 1958 and finished second in 1959 after being badly baulked and almost brought down at the final fence.

critical establishment who have set up a system of apologetics which the slyest Jesuit of the seventeenth century would have baulked at.

1985 Andrew Bews Geelong A long run at Kardinia Park in which Bews baulked two tackles and bounced three times; 40 m out from goal, Bews attempted.

Synonyms:

surface area, expanse, snooker table, billiard table, pool table, area, balk,

Antonyms:

dissuade, stay in place, exhale, push, stay,