Usually means: Pause before taking an action.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word hesitate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hesitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hesitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hesitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hesitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hesitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hesitate, hesitate: Wordnik
  7. hesitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hesitate: Wiktionary
  9. hesitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hesitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hesitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hesitate, hesitate: Dictionary.com
  13. hesitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hesitate (song), Hesitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hesitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hesitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hesitate: Rhymezone
  18. hesitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hesitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hesitate: Free Dictionary
  21. hesitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hesitate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. hesitate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hesitate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hesitated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
verb:  (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
verb:  (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

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