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balk / caballón
balk
A. -noun
1. (agriculture) caballónoun (m)
2. (Billiards) cabaña (f)
3. (=building timber) viga (f)
B. -transitive verb
(=thwart) impedir
(=miss) perder, no aprovechar
·we were balked of the chance to see it
·perdimos la oportunidad de verlo
C. -intransitive verb
·to balk (at)
[horse] plantarse (ante) (figurative)
[person]
·some students balk at carrying out animal experiments
·algunos estudiantes se muestran reacios or se resisten a llevar a cabo experimentos con animales
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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