hesitated
HEZ-i-tay-tid/ˈhɛzɪteɪtɪd/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of hesitate.
The committee hesitated before approving the new budget.
He had hesitated too long, and the chance slipped away.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty: it stands alone as the simple past (they hesitated) and follows have as the past participle (she had hesitated). In ordinary use it takes no direct object, whether the pause comes before a decision or in the middle of speech. A rare, poetic transitive use lets it carry the words spoken haltingly, but everyday prose leaves the object out.
hesitated is a form of hesitate
hesitate, verb: To pause before acting or deciding, held back by uncertainty or doubt. Full entry
- Forms
- hesitatehesitates he/she/ithesitating -ing formhesitated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- hesitate → hesitated: add -d
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