Hesitate: alternatives and connections

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

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A cover; a shelter; a protection.

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To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

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To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

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of Vibrate

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A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

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To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

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The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

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The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

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Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

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Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

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The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

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The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

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One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.

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One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.

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To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the…

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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

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To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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