Usually means: Pauses before speaking or acting.
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  1. hesitates: Merriam-Webster
  2. hesitates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hesitates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hesitates, hesitates: Wordnik
  5. hesitates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hesitates: Wiktionary
  7. hesitates: Dictionary.com
  8. hesitates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. hesitates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hesitates: Legal dictionary

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  1. hesitates: 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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