📖 Определения и значения для слова baulk
📒 to be unwilling to do something or become involved in something because it is difficult, dangerous, etc.
- Many parents may baulk at the idea of paying $100 for a pair of shoes.
- He baulked for a moment. ‘I can’t afford it,’ he finally admitted.
📒 to stop suddenly and refuse to jump a fence, etc.
📒 to prevent somebody from getting something or doing something
- (be) baulked of something She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
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