Definition of Hesitate

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Hesitate

To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.

To stammer; to falter in speaking.

To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

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Hesitate Quotations

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt Cobain

The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.
Payne Stewart

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Payne Stewart

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
Bertolt Brecht

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Hesitate Translations

hesitate in Dutch is aarzelen, schoorvoeten, dubben
hesitate in Italian is esitare
hesitate in Latin is dubito
hesitate in Spanish is vacilar

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