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balk

( also UK baulk)
 
 
/bɔːlk/ US   /bɔːk/ verb [I]

Translation

to not want to do something that is unpleasant or difficult
kaçınmak, sakınmak, uzak durmak
Most people balk at paying these kind of prices for clothes.1064
(Definition of balk verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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