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Verb
Present participle for to suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
Present participle for to hesitate or be undecisive in accepting an idea or undertaking
Present participle for to frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
Present participle for to thwart or act against
Present participle for to avoid providing a clear answer or statement
Present participle for to stand or pull back physically, typically into a defensive, aggressive or fearful posture
Present participle for to disturb the composure of
Present participle for to disregard the rules and refuse to conform
Present participle for to get away from something, especially with cunning or skill
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
Present participle for to complain or raise objections
Present participle for to stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse)
Present participle for to hesitate or refuse to proceed due to fear, aversion, or reluctance
Present participle for to disagree with or dispute
Adjective
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust
cringing
flinching
recoiling
blenching
quailing
starting
shrinking
dodging
shirking
faltering
shuddering
shying
cowering
quaking
demurring
swerving
ducking
reeling
flinching from
recoiling from
pulling back
drawing back
wincing
bucking
squinching
wavering
trembling
baulking
UK
jerking
jolting
jumping
quivering
shivering
squirming
shaking
twitching
rearing
taking fright
reacting
jumping back
shrinking back
blanching
crouching
getting cold feet
shying away
grimacing
jibbing
turning
scowling
gasping
shrinking away
pulling a face
backing off
making a face
more ❯
“The only price to be paid is the irritation of those who
balk
at the sight of a greedy quasi-criminal being honored by the Queen.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
eschewing
desisting
disdaining
jibbing
resisting
scorning
shrinking from
refusing
demurring from
quailing at
refusing to
shying away
drawing back from
jibbing at
reining in
scrupling to
shying from
stopping short
turning down
hating to
taking exception to
drawing the line at
“Parents concerned about allergies may
balk
at the idea of keeping pets around children.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hesitate or be undecisive in accepting an idea or undertaking
hesitating
wavering
vacillating
dithering
scrupling
dawdling
equivocating
doubting
dilly-dallying
hesitating over
humming and hawing
thinking twice
holding back
hemming and hawing
sitting on fence
temporizing
US
temporising
UK
faltering
delaying
stalling
fluctuating
teetering
havering
staggering
pausing
swithering
wobbling
oscillating
halting
dallying
wabbling
lingering
waiting
hedging
alternating
tergiversating
demurring
dillydallying
hovering
seesawing
pussyfooting
stumbling
deferring
deliberating
stopping
boggling
floundering
mammering
pondering
weighing
hanging
debating
shilly-shallying
hanging back
pulling back
thinking about
shying away
holding off
baulking
UK
blowing hot and cold
balancing
sitting on the fence
yo-yoing
pussyfooting around
procrastinating
running hot and cold
keeping changing your mind
changing
waffling
wasting time
getting cold feet
fence-straddling
changing mind
flip-flopping
chopping and changing
trifling
dodging
see-sawing
swinging
faffing about
straggling
lagging
hanging around
messing around
hanging about
umming and ahing
varying
swaying
paltering
straddling
whiffling
hanging fire
shrinking back
staying back
staying in the background
dragging your feet
dragging your heels
whiffling waffling
more ❯
“He also feared the president would
balk
at his proposal for the director of the National Research Foundation to be selected by a board of presidential appointees rather than the president himself.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
foiling
thwarting
baffling
checking
frustrating
barring
hindering
preventing
obstructing
beating
defeating
forestalling
counteracting
impeding
stalling
stopping
blocking
checkmating
curbing
discomfiting
halting
disconcerting
circumventing
cramping
dashing
disappointing
ruining
heading off
cramping one's style
throwing a curve
throwing monkey wrench in
upsetting the applecart
hampering
stymieing
baulking
UK
inhibiting
restraining
trammelling
trammeling
holding up
handicapping
fettering
holding back
hamstringing
scuppering
scotching
interfering with
encumbering
derailing
outwitting
crimping
hobbling
retarding
clogging
countering
cumbering
snookering
spoiling
delaying
shackling
hanging up
manacling
putting the kibosh on
handcuffing
fouling up
embarrassing
restricting
upsetting
opposing
standing in the way of
arresting
crippling
nipping in the bud
crabbing
throwing a spanner in the works
hog-tying
short-circuiting
tying up
putting paid to
putting a stop to
slowing down
getting in the way
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
nobbling
doing for
putting the mockers on
lousing up
bilking
constraining
disrupting
crossing
interrupting
deterring
putting the stopper on
screwing up
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
interfering
borking
entangling
smashing
getting in the way of
setting back
undoing
confounding
averting
rooting
overturning
precluding
snafuing
prohibiting
obviating
stonewalling
giving the slip
taking down
taking wind out of
putting a brake on
binding
overcoming
stifling
queering
traversing
stumping
confusing
cornering
slowing
nullifying
braking
suppressing
bridling
inconveniencing
intercepting
curtailing
anticipating
parrying
staving off
neutralizing
US
messing up
playing off
cooking someone's goose
repressing
choking
giving the run around
contravening
debarring
rattling
warding off
cutting off
holding off
fending off
neutralising
UK
choking off
closing off
chaining
shutting down
shutting off
shutting out
dragging your feet
giving a hard time
deflecting
diverting
worsting
throwing
countermoving
vanquishing
conquering
sabotaging
halting in its tracks
throwing a monkey wrench in the works
bottlenecking
putting off
preventing from making progress
damming
freezing
fazing
burdening
muzzling
avoiding
saddling with
resisting
boxing in
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
dishing
scuttling
invalidating
disturbing
affecting
blighting
suspending
remitting
dampening
squashing
repelling
influencing
tampering
clouding
chilling
chillin
discommoding
incommoding
jamming
intermitting
troubling
conflicting
repulsing
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
throwing cold water on
putting the damper on
counterplotting
blanking
burying
forfending
tying
beating down
getting the better of
taking wind out of sails
putting end to
causing setback
wreaking havoc with
leashing
detaining
debilitating
decelerating
stultifying
shipwrecking
staving
interdicting
staying
putting an end to
keeping off
turning aside
defending against
keeping at bay
ruling out
keeping lid on
slackening
lessening
puzzling
postponing
nonplussing
retardating
weighing down
tiing one's hands
mystifying
miring
deferring
flummoxing
bogging
shelving
pigeonholing
taking the wind out of your sails
keeping back
slowing up
bogging down
putting back
bringing to screeching halt
letting up
backing off
dead-ending
putting on hold
hanging fire
putting on back burner
throwing a monkey wrench into
crushing
helping
preempting
banjaxing
negating
licking
forbidding
pre-empting
getting in before
beating someone to the draw
second-guessing
stealing a march on
getting ahead of
providing against
beating someone to it
beating someone to the punch
putting the lid on
dashing one's hope
quashing
destroying
quelling
squelching
extinguishing
subduing
ending
demolishing
clobbering
wrecking
shattering
limiting
cracking down on
annihilating
devastating
marring
impairing
terminating
annulling
bringing to an end
nixing
subverting
undermining
stamping out
abolishing
wiping out
finishing
routing
sandbagging
escaping
snuffing out
clamping down on
damaging
getting rid of
slapping down
offsetting
silencing
controlling
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
eradicating
quenching
blowing
smothering
killing
extirpating
putting down
eluding
making a mess of
working against
playing havoc with
blowing a hole in
bringing to naught
breaking
evading
bucking
injuring
harming
destabilizing
US
obliterating
dispatching
eliminating
disempowering
decimating
sidestepping
bypassing
spiking
shaking
overwhelming
weakening
reducing
obscuring
botching
skirting
overthrowing
trashing
vitiating
cutting short
destabilising
UK
cruelling
taming
pausing
euchring
cooling
rebutting
mucking up
confining
rebuffing
steering clear of
withholding
reining in
fighting back
holding
doing in
putting a wrench in the works
holding in
holding down
standing off
picking off
stemming the flow of
sitting on
canceling out
cancelling out
rendering ineffective
putting to flight
brushing off
sending packing
turning away
driving back
wreaking havoc
thrusting back
forcing back
turning back
causing havoc
putting a spanner in the works
beating back
driving away
making a hash of
seeing off
beating off
fighting off
attacking
incapacitating
ravaging
discontinuing
disabling
threatening
compromising
getting out of
suffocating
bollixing
hurting
strangling at birth
dodging
bringing to a close
making an end of
aborting
diminishing
scrunching
squishing
ducking
petering out
breaking up
breaking down
circumnavigating
cracking down
withstanding
ceasing
shunning
intruding on
commandeering
disfiguring
strangulating
weeding out
straitening
shunting
catching
eschewing
mastering
trampling on
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
forefending
crashing
unsettling
juking
ditching
snagging
sweeping aside
outlawing
scarring
tethering
tainting
running counter to
enjoining
warding
eroding
missing
snowing under
heading off at pass
preparing for
overpowering
acting against
demoralizing
US
attenuating
staining
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
afflicting
bringing an end to
besting
denting
protracting
subjugating
shoving aside
stemming
throttling
defying
emasculating
sapping
screening
hemming in
decaying
surmounting
complicating
proroguing
softening
challenging
demoralising
UK
keeping at arm's length
knocking down
chasing away
driving off
keeping away
forcing off
keeping in
holding over
holding off on
prolonging
making late
reining
dragging through the mud
putting on brakes
cheating
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
glitching up
detracting from
containing
swallowing
muffling
dominating
poking full of holes
staunching
moderating
governing
monkeying with
prevailing over
gaining control of
winning against
triumphing over
getting a grip on
gaining mastery over
bottling up
discouraging
choking back
regulating
keeping in check
keeping
pulling in
slackening pace
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
biting back
damping
saving
letting
bringing to a standstill
playing for time
counterbalancing
toppling
balancing
counterpoising
countervailing
razing
wracking
negativing
turning off
equalizing
US
counterweighing
unbuilding
skinning
impoverishing
crazing
redressing
correcting
counterchecking
defusing
bringing down
counterweighting
overruling
deactivating
abrogating
overriding
forcing away
putting at risk
equalising
UK
compensating for
making up for
balancing out
evening up
making ineffective
squaring up
raining on someone's parade
ballsing up
more ❯
“He knew their enemies would do anything to
balk
his attempts to secure the entire estate for Mrs. King.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to thwart or act against
traversing
hindering
frustrating
obstructing
opposing
impeding
checking
thwarting
countering
crossing
counteracting
contradicting
denying
combatting
combating
disaffirming
fighting
gainsaying
impugning
negating
resisting
contravening
bucking
contesting
disputing
dueling
US
duelling
UK
negativing
repelling
withstanding
going against
acting against
Verb
▲
Present participle for to avoid providing a clear answer or statement
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
equivocating
tergiversating
pussyfooting
hedging
fudging
waffling
dodging
ducking
sidestepping
circumventing
eluding
shucking
shirking
eschewing
fleeing
reneging
welshing
hemming and hawing
beating around the bush
copping out
getting around
giving the runaround
dancing around an issue
putting off
slipping out
sneaking away
worming one's way out of
parrying
fencing
bypassing
avoiding
flannelling
prevaricating
flanneling
getting out of
finding a way round
copping out of
fending off
beating around bush
beating about the bush about
stonewalling
skirting round
begging the question
avoiding answering
evading
quibbling about
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to stand or pull back physically, typically into a defensive, aggressive or fearful posture
recoiling
retiring
retreating
retracting
shrinking
pulling back
backing off
drawing back
falling back
shrinking away
giving ground
withdrawing
turning tail
fleeing
disengaging
taking flight
beating a retreat
beating a hasty retreat
pulling out
receding
moving away
going backward
shying away
clearing out
backing out
backing away
giving way
baulking
UK
leaving
moving back
quitting
bolting
running away
escaping
vamoosing
splitting
beating it
cowering
departing
going away
shrinking back
running for it
dropping out
flinching
skedaddling
running off
scraming
scramming
taking off
cringing
legging it
opting out
scarpering
withdrawing from
cutting and run
decamping
abandoning
going back
regressing
making off
hightailing it
running
peeling out
blenching
flying
moving further off
pulling the plug
stepping back
bowing out
quailing
bailing out
contracting out
drawing away
flowing back
getting out
skipping off
exiting
backing down
wriggling out
hooking it
groveling
US
evacuating
retroceding
moving out
grovelling
UK
opting out of
making oneself scarce
distancing oneself
resiling
turning away
pulling away
defecting
revolting
crawfishing
backpedaling
US
backpedalling
UK
losing ground
retrograding
going down
returning
ebbing
retrogressing
refusing
jerking back
wincing
hanging back
crouching
starting
squinching
slinking
starting back
springing back
jumping back
shuddering
excluding oneself
delinking
dissociating
weaseling out
abstracting
weaselling out
disassociating
giving up
abstracting oneself
chucking
stopping participating
stopping participating in
bowing out of
detaching yourself
detaching
stepping down from
absenting yourself
seceding
resigning from
pulling out of
walking away from
packing in
resigning
backing out of
receding from
forsaking
disengaging from
scratching from
pulling
taking to your heels
showing a clean pair of heels
making a getaway
folding
flying the coop
making a break for it
breaking
bugging out
going
vacating
lighting out
doing a fade
heading for the hills
making a run for it
levanting
making a quick exit
eluding
taking a powder
evading
doing a bunk
doing a runner
cutting out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disturb the composure of
disconcerting
disturbing
upsetting
perturbing
discomposing
agitating
unsettling
unnerving
confusing
confounding
rattling
worrying
fazing
flustering
dismaying
nonplussing
bewildering
discomfiting
perplexing
throwing
startling
ruffling
troubling
surprising
shaking
baffling
abashing
discombobulating
puzzling
embarrassing
distracting
discountenancing
flummoxing
flurrying
mortifying
frustrating
undoing
gravelling
graveling
disorienting
bugging
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
unbalancing
hindering
disarranging
taking aback
shaking up
throwing off balance
getting to
putting off
catching off balance
taking by surprise
psyching out
stopping someone in their tracks
putting someone off their stroke
making someone scratch their head
fouling up
putting out of countenance
putting someone off their stride
setting someone back on their heels
causing to be at a stand
upsetting the applecart
dumbfounding
stunning
astonishing
astounding
mystifying
bemusing
flooring
befuddling
foxing
bamboozling
fuddling
muddling
stumping
addling
beating
mazing
vexing
buffaloing
befogging
posing
wildering
getting
fogging
exercising
besetting
stumbling
thwarting
baulking
UK
bothering
disquieting
distressing
alarming
unhinging
concerning
appalling
shocking
discomforting
stupefying
frazzling
flabbergasting
fussing
distempering
ailing
alaruming
amazing
irking
frightening
staggering
daunting
hagriding
derailing
annoying
scaring
dazing
freaking out
weirding out
harassing
intimidating
spooking
horrifying
bowling over
irritating
knocking for six
discouraging
chagrining
fretting
rocking
provoking
disheartening
making uneasy
overwhelming
panicking
jolting
tormenting
dumfounding
cowing
hassling
thunderstriking
afflicting
terrifying
plaguing
making anxious
pestering
striking dumb
awing
aweing
terrorizing
US
displeasing
knocking sideways
stirring up
deterring
surprizing
dispiriting
terrorising
UK
exasperating
throwing off
galling
peeving
aggravating
depressing
saddening
burning up
blowing away
angering
leaving open-mouthed
affrighting
setting someone thinking
blowing your mind
nettling
muddying
riling
chillin
chilling
bullying
browbeating
grieving
petrifying
needling
narking
mixing up
leaving aghast
paining
knocking out
working up
knocking the stuffing out of
oppressing
consternating
obfuscating
hurting
making uncomfortable
making nervous
agonizing
US
putting into a flap
putting out
throwing into a tizz
piquing
making waves
dejecting
hacking off
exciting
gnawing at
agonising
UK
unmanning
giving a hard time
subduing
crazing
knocking for a loop
miffing
wounding
taking your breath away
pothering
torturing
offending
nagging
jarring
aggrieving
electrifying
niggling
straining
causing someone to lose their composure
picking on
weighing down
frighting
boggling the mind
taking the wind out of your sails
crushing
rendering speechless
throwing a curve
chafing
discommoding
moving
spiting
sickening
persecuting
overawing
affecting
repelling
disappointing
disgruntling
scarifying
putting the wind up
rattling one's cage
harrying
deranging
letting down
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
benumbing
disorientating
throwing into a tizzy
scaring to death
boggling
burdening
stressing
bringing up short
trying
giving someone grief
dissing
giving a turn
bumming out
ticking off
casting down
getting at
going to your head
springing on
grating
haunting
outraging
hurrying
rasping
bustling
eating
frosting
griping
itching
rousing
bulldozing
disillusioning
flipping
badgering
sapping
unstringing
paralysing
UK
disenchanting
making self-conscious
traumatizing
US
dementing
impressing
insulting
paralyzing
US
making fretful
disordering
frenzying
debilitating
stiffing
inflaming
overcoming
harrowing
egging on
throwing into tizzy
dissatisfying
eluding
striking terror into
winding up
hounding
antagonizing
US
making a scene
turning on
indisposing
getting across
beleaguering
traumatising
UK
disrupting
giving a bad time
scaring away
scaring the bejesus out of
screwing up
racking
antagonising
UK
stinging
chilling to the bone
eating away at
injuring
disobliging
curdling the blood
causing anxiety to
flipping out
pulling the rug from under
pushing buttons
making one's hair stand on end
scaring off
making teeth chatter
pulling the rug out from under
boggling the mind of
stymieing
lying heavy on
causing anguish to
giving offence to
interrupting
making one's blood run cold
making miserable
making wretched
weighing on
hurting somebody's feelings
cutting to the quick
rankling with
putting one away
making someone jump out of their skin
causing anxiety
giving a shock
knocking over with feather
knocking over
making your head spin
causing concern to
messing with one's head
causing discomfort to
driving up the wall
sticking it to
fluttering
incommoding
hustling
unquieting
quickening
destabilizing
US
worsting
preoccupying
dizzying
tangling
making restless
destabilising
UK
blinding
despairing
confusticating
striking
causing disquiet to
inconveniencing
touching
uncalming
revolting
disgusting
inciting
galvanizing
US
blinding someone with something
nauseating
scandalizing
US
arousing
conquering
scaring the daylights out of
confuscating
stimulating
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
fearing
stewing
sweating
gobsmacking
goading
fermenting
dazzling
flabagasting
galvanising
UK
snowing
shattering
dampening
catching unawares
making punchy
intoxicating
inebriating
affronting
making awkward
showing up
turning
incapacitating
cramping
throwing for loop
burning
defeating
roiling
grinding
making jump
knocking props out
causing wonder
striking with awe
firing up
hanging up
anguishing
cursing
possessing
balling up
catching one short
giving someone a jolt
giving someone a fright
throwing a curveball
keying up
laying up
getting someone
putting on edge
making a monkey of
putting on the spot
putting in a spot
putting in a hole
hacking you off
preying on your mind
weighing heavily on
damping
sending into a spin
enervating
bugging up
making flip
rocking the boat
getting on one's nerves
dogging
pushing
strapping
tantalising
UK
desolating
martyring
pricking
breaking
tantalizing
US
nit-picking
slighting
weakening
undermining
making speechless
throwing for a loop
niggling at
nagging at
causing suffering to
numbing
devastating
scandalising
UK
deflating
causing to panic
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
eating at
making it tough for
cutting up
bringing down
devitalizing
getting on your wick
underwhelming
hectoring
disparaging
locoing
enfeebling
disrespecting
blackjacking
disempowering
dampening spirits
breaking one's heart
embittering
crippling
grossing out
snubbing
dragooning
dragging down
making blue
putting a damper on
putting into a funk
breaking the heart of
slurring
zinging
humiliating
taunting
dashing the hopes of
shattering the illusions of
dampening the spirits of
dashing hopes
bullyragging
raising someone's eyebrows
teasing
hitting like ton of bricks
completely surprising
shaking out of your complacency
abrading
chastening
bogarting
railroading
bringing low
baiting
stirring
tyrannizing
US
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
putting your back up
giving offence
putting down
putting someone's nose out of joint
causing offense
turning off
treading on someone's toes
getting your goat
blowing up
jeering
wearing
bludgeoning
maddening
ridiculing
filling with fear
scaring witless
scaring stiff
cracking
gibing
scaring the pants off
hazing
booing
giving someone goose pimples
dashing
tyrannising
UK
scaring someone out of their wits
scaring the living daylights out of
giving someone the heebie-jeebies
chilling to the marrow
putting the fear of God into
hissing
strong-arming
freezing your blood
mau-mauing
getting the wind up
leaning on
throwing into a blue funk
making insane
driving mad
throwing into a fright
pushing around
making one's flesh creep
giving one the creeps
chivying
scaring someone half to death
turning on the heat
barracking
heckling
jibing at
shouting down
shouting at
shouting catcalls at
making game of
filling with consternation
messing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disregard the rules and refuse to conform
disobeying
defying
contravening
violating
infringing
flouting
infracting
disregarding
transgressing
ignoring
resisting
overstepping
opposing
rebelling
revolting
rioting
counteracting
challenging
mutinying
striking
mocking
neglecting
withstanding
daring
declining
deserting
differing
disagreeing
evading
misbehaving
objecting
recalcitrating
revolutionising
UK
revolutionizing
US
shirking
going against
rebelling against
failing to observe
failing to comply with
refusing to obey
flying in the face of
setting at naught
setting aside
running riot
digging your heels in
breaking rules
not heeding
not listening
not minding
paying no heed to
breaking the rules
refusing to comply
rising in arms
going counter to
flying in face of
paying no attention to
taking law into own hands
Verb
▲
Present participle for to get away from something, especially with cunning or skill
evading
avoiding
dodging
eluding
escaping
shaking
shunning
sidestepping
ducking
eschewing
losing
shirking
circumventing
finessing
scaping
skirting
bilking
ditching
shucking
baffling
fleeing
flying
shying
escaping from
leaving behind
shaking off
breaking away from
getting around
running away from
slipping out
sneaking away
staying away from
steering clear of
escaping the clutches of
getting away from
giving a wide berth
giving the runaround
giving the slip
shuffling out of
weaseling out of
weaselling out of
slipping through the net of
keeping your distance
leading on a merry chase
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
mulcting
cheating
conning
defrauding
swindling
stiffing
bilking
fleecing
diddling
suckering
cozening
stinging
hustling
rooking
doing
skinning
flimflamming
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
bleeding
shortchanging
screwing
fiddling
hosing
gaffing
sticking
squeezing
shorting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
euchring
skunking
deceiving
reaming
chousing
thimblerigging
plucking
nobbling
beating
stealing
ripping off
shaking down
doing in
depriving
doing out of
beating out of
tricking
baulking
UK
duping
bamboozling
taking for a ride
hoodwinking
fooling
gulling
misleading
hoaxing
scamming
shafting
taking to the cleaners
finagling
pulling a fast one on
putting one over on
deluding
hornswoggling
double-crossing
snookering
burning
buncoing
having
exploiting
beguiling
taking advantage of
swizzling
selling a pup to
taking in
snowing
stringing along
pulling a swifty on
clipping
robbing
humbugging
milking
bluffing
gouging
misguiding
having on
misinforming
outwitting
spoofing
sandbagging
overcharging
chicaning
faking out
sucking in
buffaloing
gammoning
juggling
catching
selling a bill of goods to
leading on
embezzling
gazumping
rushing
entrapping
inveigling
kidding
short-changing
leading up the garden path
selling a pup
pulling a fast one
overreaching
roping in
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
goldbricking
extorting
swizzing
betraying
selling
ensnaring
seducing
taking
screwing over
giving someone a bum steer
selling down the river
jerking around
stitching up
pulling one's leg
double-dealing
wringing
illuding
plundering
soaking
fudging
trimming
pilfering
pulling
shucking
circumventing
disappointing
doing the dirty on
running a game on
selling a bill of goods
sucking dry
setting up
doing a number on
outfoxing
doing someone in the eye
faking
pulling fast one
leading down the garden path
putting on
making a fool of
extracting
outthinking
framing
frauding
gipping
using
heisting
filching
thwarting
wresting
expelling
wrenching
forcing
pigeoning
grifting
befooling
baffling
jiving
blackmailing
impoverishing
pauperizing
crossing
preying on
juking
strong-arming
suckering into
doing number on
making a sucker of
getting the better of
pulling someone's leg
cribbing
blenching
belirting
rogueing
roguing
lirting
putting the screws to
sucking the life out of
lulling
foxing
playing a trick on
play-acting
flamming
outmanoeuvring
UK
outmaneuvering
US
outsmarting
fixing
hooking
falsifying
crossing up
playing joke on
lying to
taking for ride
handing a line
taking to cleaners
playing away
tearing from
bleeding someone of something
taking out
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
stealing someone blind
conning out of
rooking out of
wheedling
cajoling
coaxing
luring
buttying
sweet-talking
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to complain or raise objections
demurring
objecting
protesting
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
complaining
dissenting
remonstrating
deprecating
disagreeing
disputing
excepting
expostulating
opposing
scrupling
stickling
boggling
challenging
disapproving
fighting
kicking
resisting
combatting
combating
taking exception
taking issue
expressing doubts
raising objections
expressing doubt
kicking up a fuss
kicking up a stink
raising doubts
lodging a protest
arguing
expressing objections
protesting against
grousing
minding
condemning
expressing disapproval
taking exception to
expressing objections to
expressing disagreement
lodging a protest against
expressing disapproval of
arguing against
raising objections to
expressing disagreement with
moaning
quibbling
grumbling
griping
remonstrating against
beefing
taking issue with
having a problem
quarreling with
disapproving of
spurning
making a fuss
grumbling about
cavilling at
kvetching
having a problem with
drawing the line
grousing about
complaining about
taking a stand against
moaning about
criticizing
US
discommending
discountenancing
inveighing
criticising
UK
drawing the line at
crabbing
crossing
making a fuss about
disavowing
disesteeming
griping about
ranting about
beefing about
quibbling about
kvetching about
begging to differ
frowning on
sounding off
taking on
railing against
raising objection
kicking up a fuss about
making an objection
making a stink
kicking up a stink about
tangling with
going-one-on-one
mixing it up with
baulking
UK
denouncing
disliking
objecting to
censuring
deploring
railing
rocking the boat
taking offence
taking offense
blaming
disparaging
disfavouring
disfavoring
reproving
fulminating
rebelling
squawking
howling
decrying
animadverting
expressing opposition
speaking out
blasting
opposing strongly
complaining vociferously about
speaking out against
frowning upon
kicking against
inveighing against
speaking up
taking umbrage
finding fault with
not supporting
expressing a poor opinion of
protesting about
knocking
panning
reasoning
admonishing
recriminating
nagging
reprehending
dispraising
repudiating
reproaching
rebuking
raising hell
slamming
chastising
making a protest to
finding fault
picking at
protesting to
objecting noisily to
protesting loudly to
complaining vociferously to
zinging
detracting
negating
caring
objecting strongly to
smarting
discouraging
resenting
revolting
hollering
demurring at
taking a dim view
coming out against
taking offence at
raising an objection
disagreeing with
taking umbrage at
frowning
showing displeasure
thundering
going off in a huff
taking something amiss
taking something the wrong way
castigating
looking askance at
making a protest
making a stand
crying out
attacking
not taking kindly to
taking a dim view of
saying no
voicing disapproval
vociferating
ranting
taking a stand
fuming
berating
vituperating
back-talking
putting up a fight
saying no to
taking up the cudgels
upbraiding
giving a toss
caring a hoot
giving a hoot
looking askance
caring a toss
scolding
abusing
reviling
rating
whipping
jawing
thundering against
raging against
bawling out
putting up a fight against
expostulating about
chewing out
remonstrating about
fulminating against
tongue-lashing
complaining bitterly about
declaiming against
disagreeing violently with
making a protest against
criticizing severely
kicking up
making a stand against
taking great exception to
protesting strongly at
caring a rap
giving a rap
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse)
jibbing
refusing
recoiling
retreating
shying
stopping at
stopping short
baulking at
stopping short at
pulling up
retreating from
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hesitate or refuse to proceed due to fear, aversion, or reluctance
jibbing
wavering
faltering
hesitating
shying
flinching
quailing
recoiling
shrinking from
recoiling from
baulking at
shying away from
boggling at
demurring at
drawing back from
fighting shy of
retreating from
shying at
stopping short of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disagree with or dispute
dissenting
differing
demurring
disagreeing
disputing
diverging
challenging
disapproving
nonconcurring
objecting
opposing
rejecting
repudiating
abjuring
protesting
rebelling
refusing
renouncing
stickling
arguing
bucking
contradicting
declining
disaccording
discording
dividing
pettifogging
shying
varying
wrangling
arguing with
disagreeing with
objecting to
protesting against
quibbling over
expressing disagreement with
taking issue with
declining to support
expressing disagreement
expressing objection
failing to agree with
refusing to support
breaking with
withholding assent
saying nothing doing
saying no way
putting up an argument
putting up a fight
saying not a chance
flying in the face of
Adjective
▲
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind
disinclined
reluctant
loath
hesitant
unwilling
indisposed
averse
opposed
afraid
resistant
uneager
slow
reticent
unenthusiastic
loth
antipathetic
cagey
cagy
hesitating
backward
unprepared
dubious
recalcitrant
baulking
UK
nervous
doubtful
objecting
shy
unsympathetic
ill-disposed
not in the mood
not disposed
hostile
antagonistic
hesitant about
chary of
inimical
against
wary
uninclined
scared
chary
discouraged
disheartened
not in favour of
opposed to
shy of
diffident about
embarrassed
grudging
ashamed
afraid of
resisting
frightened
not keen
unenthusiastic about
uncertain
circumspect
demurring
restiff
dismayed
suspicious
averse to
cautious with
circumspect about
queasy about
anti
unfriendly
squeamish
opposing
queasy
cautious
contrary
remiss
calculating
agin
unfavourable
UK
allergic
unfavorable
US
nasty
disliking
perverse
afraid to
bashful about
mind
shy about
coy about
down on
hanging back
ashamed to
sweer
resistant to
hostile to
antipathetic to
ill-disposed to
antagonistic to
disrelish
unfavourably disposed to
having no use for
baulk at
recoil from
demur at
not about
jib at
shrink from
flinch from
vacillate about
have scruples about
waver about
stick at
have qualms about
shy away from
have misgivings about
boggle at
think twice about
have reservations about
not have the heart to
be cagey about
negative
set against
dead set against
adversarial
inhospitable
jaundiced
adversary
mortal
aggressive
at odds
at odds with
dissenting from
at variance with
in disagreement with
on the warpath
uncooperative
confrontational
combative
disobliging
unwelcoming
cool
cold
belligerent
contra
opposite
contentious
quarrelsome
oppugnant
adverse to
in opposition
acting in opposition
incompatible
at variance
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
defensive
preventive
resistive
averting
arresting
baulking
UK
foiling
checking
forestalling
frustrating
interrupting
thwarting
in opposition
warding off
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