balk
verb (used without object)
to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed byat ).
unbalked
-
a word derived from
balk.
Example Sentences
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Even in literary careers that last a long time, there seem to be golden days when the inspiration is unbalked by obstacles.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
Beyond there is a door That opens to the Elster bank unbalked.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
