All hesitate synonyms

verb hesitate

• ponder — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
• pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• waffle — waffling language.
• waver — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
• falter — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
• stumble — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
• dither — a trembling; vibration.
• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
• pussyfoot — to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
• seesaw — a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
• debate — A debate is a discussion about a subject on which people have different views.
• dillydally — to waste time, especially by indecision; vacillate; trifle; loiter.
• alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
• doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
• fumble — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
• fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
• scruple — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
• oscillate — to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
• vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
• linger — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• stammer — to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
• straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
• demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
• stutter — distorted speech characterized principally by blocks or spasms interrupting the rhythm.
• weigh — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• blow hot and cold — to vacillate
• hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
• think twice — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
• shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
• dilly-dally — to loiter or vacillate
• dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.