hesitate

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Plain form
hesitate

Third-person singular
hesitates

Past tense
hesitated

Past participle
hesitated

Present participle
hesitating

  1. When someone hesitates, they have doubts about something and therefore do not act, or stop the action.
    He hesitated for a while before signing the contract.

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