Balked is valid Scrabble Word

Is balked a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is balked valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for BALKED in dictionary:

VERB:

BALK, to refrain from proceeding, also BAUK, BAULK
hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
thwart or hinder (a plan or person)
prevent a person or animal from having (something)
miss or refuse (a chance or invitation)
(with reference to a horse) refuse or cause to refuse to go on

NOUN:

a roughly squared timber beam
the area on a billiard table between the balk line and the bottom cushion, within which in some circumstances a ball is protected from a direct stroke.
an unlawful action made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner.
a ridge left unploughed between furrows.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to stop short and refuse to proceed

Words related to BALKED

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How to use BALKED in a sentence

Now in those days I rejoiced in the strength of my legs, and I was determined not to be thus balked.
This was annoying, because Osborn hated to be balked and seldom allowed anything to interfere with his amusements.
Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge.
At a time of more calmness he might have balked at this one.
It balked and whirled on the ledge, but it would not pass Bassett.
When they arrived at the spot at which they had balked a few minutes before, they went through with the same antics, and then I thought it best to see what was the matter.
Then we twain can set to work over our task, and it will be strange indeed if we be balked in it, seeing that the hardest part is already accomplished.
I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
The convention balked at the latter but went half way by abolishing the system of royal administration and establishing a complete plan of self-government.
The thick stalks of the former often balked our aim.

Balked of his prey, he stood for a moment looking at the closed door in sullen silence.
Ignorant as he is of the pain from which I would save him, and feeling only the pain of a balked desire, he could not fail to look on me as the cause of that pain.
But he had played football too long to be upset by a watery wave, and I was balked of my revenge.
Determined not to be balked the young man let fly, and then, bounding across the room, snapped back the door, meaning to repeat the shot at the first glimpse of Mustad.
There was a vast crowd waiting to get on the Flushing-Folkestone boat, and it appeared we would be balked in our endeavor to get to England that night.
Well, the black tax-gatherer is balked by a day, and the wanderer is back at Ercildoune again.
And rather than be balked of it, he turns to the less sophisticated mechanism of the piano-player.
The next afternoon they meant to return to Klerac, in time for dinner, but the car balked and finally gave out altogether.
To extend these doctrines over the whole continent is a noble mission, and one not to be balked or hindered by foolish scruples or weak pity for a pitiless foe.
Then for the first time in his life Skipper balked.
He had made renewed efforts to get a servant after that, but the invalid herself balked him.
You are the only man who has persistently balked me.
Hitherto these men and their fellows had hampered and thwarted him, marred his plans and balked his efforts.
The latter found himself balked, so headed straight for them.
Balked of his will to set the people right, His soul was gloomy though his hat was white, So fierce his mien, with provident accord The waiters swarmed him, thinking him a lord.
But at the next little hill, which we encountered about twilight, one of the team horses balked.
Lo! rested and full of grain, he balked again! He ruined our start.
This narrow but judicious plan, which would have carried the family to a second generation, was already balked by events.
John Adams in London, and John Jay in Madrid, were likewise balked.
He knows that during the long hours William balked at a particularly steep climb, and that Casey was finally obliged to get off and lead the Way.
If only Aaron would come! Gordon became surer that the mare had balked.
If she could get to the Parish House without anybody knowing where she was, Inglesby and Hunter would be balked of that interview to-morrow night.

Similar words containing BALK without suffix ed

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