Hesitate Past Tense

The past tense of Hesitate is hesitated.

1. hesitate

verb. ['ˈhɛzəˌteɪt'] pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.

Rhymes with Hesitate

• acetate
• agitate
• allstate
• amputate
• annotate
• cogitate
• corestate
• debilitate
• decapitate
• devastate
• dictate
• downstate
• facilitate
• felicitate
• gestate
• gravitate
• homestate
• imitate
• incapacitate
• irritate

How do you pronounce hesitate?

Pronounce hesitate as ˈhɛzəˌteɪt.

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Sentences with hesitate

1. Verb, base form
Don't hesitate to say you made a mistake and are sorry.

2. Noun, singular or mass
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Quotes about hesitate

1. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
- Laurell K. Hamilton

2. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3. This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
- Cristiane Serruya, The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts

2. hesitate

verb. ['ˈhɛzəˌteɪt'] interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing.