Usually means: Paused briefly before taking action.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hesitated: Merriam-Webster
  2. hesitated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hesitated: Vocabulary.com
  4. hesitated: Wordnik
  5. hesitated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hesitated: Wiktionary
  7. Hesitated, hesitated: Dictionary.com
  8. hesitated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hesitated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Hesitated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hesitated: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hesitated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitated: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitated: Idioms

(Note: See hesitate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hesitate)

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.
verb:  (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
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