• to balk at a difficulty
• to balk, to bottleneck, to clog, to clog up, to cramp, to detain, to embarrass, to encumber, to hamper, to hold up, to impede, to incapacitate, to keep from, to obstruct, to pocket, to prohibit, to put back, to put off, to set back, to stall, to thwart, to tie, to traverse
• interfering, obstructive
• hindrance, incapacitation, obstruction
• expidite, free, glib, unbound, unchecked, unhampered, unhindered, unimpeded, unobstructed, untrammelled