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verb-intransitive. To be slow to act, speak, or decide.

verb-intransitive. To pause in uncertainty; waver.

verb-intransitive. To be reluctant.

verb-intransitive. To speak haltingly; falter.

v. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.

v. To stammer; to falter in speaking.

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

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.

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

To hold back in doubt or indecision; refrain or delay by reason of uncertainty or difficulty of decision or choice: as, he hesitated to believe the report; they hesitate about taking so dangerous a step.

To halt or falter in speech, through indecision or embarrassment; make irregular involuntary pauses; stammer.

Synonyms Waver, etc. (see scruple); delay, vacillate, deliberate, doubt, be undetermined, demur.

See stammner.

To utter or express with hesitation or reluctantly; insinuate dubiously.

v. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

"COMEY: The only reason I hesitate is it was never Director"

hesitated    hesitates    hesitating   

falter   

dwell on    waver    linger    linger over    oscillate    vibrate    hover    boggle    vacillate    falter   

hesitation    hesitant   

stammer    scruple    waver    doubt    deliberate    falter    demur