Словарь синонимов английского языка - hesitate

(v) 1. delay, hold or hang back, pause, dilly-dally, wait, temporize, dhink twice, balk, boggle at, shrink from, demur, scruple, Brit haver, jib, Colloq stall: He who hesitates is lost. 2. fumble, equivocate, tergiversate, fluctuate, alternate, waver, dither, vacillate, shilly-shally: He hesitated between the doors did this one conceal the lady or the tiger? 3. stammer, stutter, falter, sputter, splutter, stumble, hem and haw: She hesitated throughout the speech purely from stage fright.