1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures".[Wordnet]
2. Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing.[Wordnet]
3. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.[Websters]
4. To stammer; to falter in speaking.[Websters]
5. To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.[Websters]
6. Base verb from the following inflections: hesitating, hesitated, hesitates, hesitator, hesitators, hesitatingly and hesitatedly.[