transcription, транскрипция: [ bɔ:lk, AM bɔ:k ]
also baulk
( balks, balking, balked)
If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
VERB : V at n , V