hesitate

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, poetic) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

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