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hesitance
a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
stickling
collapse
related words >
bashful
,
bashfulness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
cautious
,
compunction
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurring
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
falter
,
faltering
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
jibbing
,
modest
,
modesty
,
objection
,
pause
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmish
,
qualmishness
,
recoil
,
scruple
,
scrupling
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulous
,
scrupulousness
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
shyness
,
squeamish
,
sticking
,
straining
,
tentative
,
timid
shyness
collapse
a feeling of fear of embarrassment
related words >
afraidness
,
bashfulness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
compunction
,
confusion
,
coyness
,
demur
,
demureness
,
demurity
,
demurral
,
diffidence
,
embarrassment
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fearfulness
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
jumpiness
,
modesty
,
mousiness
,
objection
,
pause
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
recoil
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
self-consciousness
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shrinking
,
shrinkingness
,
skittishness
,
stage fright
,
stagefright
,
stammering
,
startlishness
,
stickling
,
timidity
,
timidness
,
timorousness
shilly shallying
collapse
related words >
caution
,
cautious
,
cautiousness
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
demurring
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dragging
,
equivocation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fluctuating
,
fluctuation
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
jibbing
,
lag
,
lagging
,
lingering
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
oscillating
,
oscillation
,
oscillatory
,
pendulating
,
pendulation
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
scrupling
,
shilly-shally
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
tarrying
,
tentative
,
tentativeness
,
timid
,
vacillating
,
vacillation
,
vacillatory
,
wavering
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
diffidence
collapse
lack of self-confidence
related words >
Pyrrhonism
,
afraidness
,
apprehension
,
bashfulness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
caution
,
cautiousness
,
compunction
,
demur
,
demurral
,
distrust
,
distrustfulness
,
doubt
,
doubtfulness
,
dubiety
,
dubiousness
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fearfulness
,
half-belief
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
jumpiness
,
lack of self-confidence
,
lack of self-reliance
,
leeriness
,
misdoubt
,
misgiving
,
mistrust
,
mistrustfulness
,
modesty
,
objection
,
pause
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
question
,
recoil
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
self-depreciation
,
self-detraction
,
self-distrust
,
self-doubt
,
self-effacement
,
shadow of doubt
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shrinkingness
,
shyness
,
skepticalness
,
skepticism
,
skittishness
,
stage fright
,
startlishness
,
stickling
,
suspicion
,
suspiciousness
,
tentativeness
,
timidity
,
timorousness
,
total skepticism
,
uncertainty
,
wariness
,
weak ego
compunction
collapse
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
related words >
attrition
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
better self
,
bitch
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boycott
,
challenge
,
complaint
,
conscience
,
conscientiousness
,
contriteness
,
contrition
,
demonstration
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurrer
,
diffidence
,
disinclination
,
exception
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fear
,
grievance
,
grievance committee
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
howl
,
indignation meeting
,
kick
,
march
,
misgiving
,
modesty
,
nonviolent protest
,
objection
,
pangs
,
pangs of conscience
,
pause
,
penance
,
penitently
,
picketing
,
pricking of heart
,
protest
,
protest demonstration
,
protestation
,
punctiliousness
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
qualms
,
rally
,
recoil
,
regret
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
remonstration
,
remorse
,
repentance
,
reserve
,
rue
,
ruth
,
scruple
,
scruples
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
self-reproach
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
sit-in
,
squawk
,
stickling
,
strike
,
teach-in
,
throes
,
touch of conscience
,
twinge of conscience
,
unwillingness
,
voice of conscience
qualm
collapse
related words >
agitation
,
airsickness
,
all-overs
,
anxiety
,
apprehension
,
apprehensiveness
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
better self
,
bitch
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boycott
,
car sickness
,
challenge
,
complaint
,
compunction
,
concern
,
conscience
,
conscientiousness
,
conviction
,
demonstration
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurrer
,
diffidence
,
disinclination
,
doubt
,
exception
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fastidiousness
,
foreboding
,
funny feeling
,
grievance
,
grievance committee
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
howl
,
impatience
,
indignation meeting
,
insecurity
,
kick
,
mal de mer
,
march
,
meticulousness
,
misgiving
,
mistrust
,
modesty
,
motion sickness
,
nausea
,
nervousness
,
nonviolent protest
,
objection
,
overconscientiousness
,
overscrupulousness
,
pang
,
pangs
,
pangs of conscience
,
pause
,
perturbation
,
picketing
,
point of honor
,
presentiment
,
pricking of heart
,
protest
,
protest demonstration
,
protestation
,
punctilio
,
punctiliousness
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
qualms
,
queasiness
,
rally
,
recoil
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
remonstration
,
scruple
,
scruples
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
seasickness
,
second thought
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
sit-in
,
squawk
,
squeamishness
,
stickling
,
strike
,
suspicion
,
teach-in
,
throes
,
touch of conscience
,
twinge
,
twinge of conscience
,
uncertainty
,
unease
,
uneasiness
,
unwillingness
,
voice of conscience
,
vomiting
,
worry
shrinking
collapse
the act of becoming less
process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
related words >
Olympian
,
Sanforizing
,
aloof
,
aseptic
,
atrophy
,
attenuation
,
backward
,
bashful
,
bashfulness
,
blank
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
chilled
,
chilly
,
cold
,
compunction
,
constrained
,
consumption
,
cool
,
cowardly
,
declining
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurring
,
detached
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
diminishing
,
discreet
,
distant
,
drying
,
drying up
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
ebbing
,
emaceration
,
emaciation
,
expressionless
,
fading
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
forbidding
,
frigid
,
frosty
,
goosy
,
guarded
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
icy
,
impassive
,
impersonal
,
in fear
,
inaccessible
,
introverted
,
jumpy
,
modest
,
modesty
,
mousy
,
nervous
,
objection
,
offish
,
parching
,
pause
,
preshrinkage
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmish
,
qualmishness
,
quiet
,
rabbity
,
receding
,
recoil
,
remote
,
removed
,
repressed
,
reserved
,
restrained
,
reticent
,
retiring
,
retreating
,
scary
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulous
,
scrupulousness
,
searing
,
shaky
,
shivery
,
shrinkage
,
shriveling
,
shy
,
shyness
,
sinking
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
squeamish
,
standoff
,
standoffish
,
startlish
,
stickling
,
subdued
,
suppressed
,
thinning
,
timid
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
unaffable
,
unapproachable
,
uncongenial
,
undemonstrative
,
unexpansive
,
ungenial
,
waning
,
wasting
,
withdrawn
,
withering
modesty
collapse
formality and propriety of manner
freedom from vanity or conceit
related words >
aloofness
,
altruism
,
backwardness
,
bashfulness
,
blankness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
chilliness
,
coldness
,
commitment
,
compunction
,
consecration
,
constraint
,
coolness
,
decency
,
decorousness
,
decorum
,
dedication
,
delicacy
,
demur
,
demurral
,
detachment
,
devotion
,
diffidence
,
discreetness
,
discretion
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
distance
,
dullness
,
elegance
,
expressionlessness
,
fairishness
,
falter
,
faltering
,
frigidity
,
frostiness
,
guardedness
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
homeliness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
iciness
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
impersonality
,
inaccessibility
,
indifference
,
ingloriousness
,
innocuousness
,
introversion
,
lackluster
,
lowlihood
,
lowliness
,
meanness
,
mediocreness
,
mediocrity
,
meekness
,
middlingness
,
moderateness
,
modestness
,
objection
,
passableness
,
pause
,
plainness
,
poorness
,
propriety
,
protest
,
pudency
,
pudicity
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
recoil
,
remoteness
,
repression
,
reserve
,
reservedness
,
respectability
,
restraint
,
reticence
,
reticency
,
retirement
,
sacrifice
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
seemliness
,
self-abasement
,
self-abnegation
,
self-denial
,
self-devotion
,
self-effacement
,
self-forgetfulness
,
self-immolation
,
self-neglect
,
self-neglectfulness
,
self-renouncement
,
self-sacrifice
,
self-subjection
,
selflessness
,
shame
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
simpleness
,
smallness
,
standoffishness
,
stickling
,
subduedness
,
submissiveness
,
suppression
,
teachableness
,
tediousness
,
tolerableness
,
unacquisitiveness
,
unaffability
,
unapproachability
,
uncongeniality
,
undemonstrativeness
,
unexpansiveness
,
unimportance
,
unpossessiveness
,
unpretentiousness
,
unselfishness
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawnness
hesitation
collapse
the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
indecision in speech or action
related words >
Fabian policy
,
Micawberism
,
abeyance
,
averseness
,
backwardness
,
balbuties
,
bashfulness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
break
,
caesura
,
calculation
,
canniness
,
capriciousness
,
care
,
careful consideration
,
carefulness
,
caution
,
cautiousness
,
cease-fire
,
chance
,
chanciness
,
changeableness
,
circumspection
,
compunction
,
courtesan
,
day off
,
delay
,
deliberate stages
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
demimondaine
,
demimonde
,
demirep
,
demur
,
demurral
,
diffidence
,
dilatoriness
,
discretion
,
doubt
,
drop
,
dubiety
,
dysphemia
,
erraticism
,
erraticness
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fancy woman
,
fickleness
,
gingerliness
,
guardedness
,
hedge
,
hedging
,
heed
,
heedfulness
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitating
,
hetaera
,
hold-off
,
holiday
,
incalculability
,
incertitude
,
indecision
,
indecisiveness
,
indemonstrability
,
indeterminacy
,
indetermination
,
indeterminism
,
indisposition
,
interim
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interruption
,
interval
,
irresolution
,
judiciousness
,
kept
,
lapse
,
laxness
,
layoff
,
letup
,
luck
,
lull
,
mindfulness
,
mistrust
,
modesty
,
mugwump
,
objection
,
palilalia
,
pause
,
pawkiness
,
prior consultation
,
procrastination
,
protest
,
prudence
,
prudentialness
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
randomness
,
recess
,
recoil
,
regardfulness
,
reluctance
,
remission
,
remissness
,
respite
,
rest
,
safeness
,
safety first
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
slackness
,
slowness
,
slowness to act
,
solicitude
,
stall
,
stammer
,
stammering
,
stand-down
,
stay
,
stickling
,
stutter
,
stuttering
,
suspense
,
suspensefulness
,
suspension
,
temporization
,
tentativeness
,
thoroughness
,
to-and-fro
,
traulism
,
truce
,
unaccountability
,
uncertainness
,
uncertainty
,
uncertainty principle
,
uncommunicativeness
,
undecidedness
,
undeterminedness
,
unforeseeableness
,
unprecipitateness
,
unpredictability
,
unprovability
,
unsureness
,
unverifiability
,
vacation
,
vacillation
,
wavering
,
whimsicality
,
whore
objection
collapse
(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
the speech act of objecting
related words >
answer
,
antipathy
,
argument
,
ban
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
bitch
,
blackball
,
blackballing
,
block
,
blockade
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
bottleneck
,
boycott
,
catch
,
challenge
,
combative reaction
,
complaint
,
compunction
,
cordon
,
counteraction
,
counterstatement
,
curtain
,
defense
,
defiance
,
demonstration
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
determent
,
deterrent
,
difficulty
,
diffidence
,
dim view
,
disagreement
,
disappointment
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
discontent
,
discontentedness
,
discontentment
,
disenchantment
,
disesteem
,
disfavor
,
disgruntlement
,
disillusion
,
disillusionment
,
dislike
,
displeasure
,
dispute
,
disrespect
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
distaste
,
doubt
,
drawback
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fractiousness
,
grievance
,
grievance committee
,
hang-up
,
hazard
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
hitch
,
howl
,
hurdle
,
indignation
,
indignation meeting
,
interference
,
joker
,
kick
,
low estimation
,
low opinion
,
march
,
modesty
,
negativism
,
noncooperation
,
nonviolent protest
,
obstacle
,
obstinacy
,
obstruction
,
obstructive
,
one small difficulty
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
ostracism
,
passive resistance
,
pause
,
picketing
,
plea
,
pleading
,
protest
,
protest demonstration
,
protestation
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
question
,
rally
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
rebuttal
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
remonstration
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
reply
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resistance
,
response
,
revolt
,
riposte
,
rub
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
sit-in
,
snag
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
squawk
,
stand
,
statement of defense
,
stickling
,
strike
,
stumbling block
,
stumbling stone
,
teach-in
,
thumbs-down
,
uncooperativeness
,
unhappiness
,
withstanding
demur
collapse
(law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
enter a demurrer
related words >
aversion
,
back down
,
balance
,
balk
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
bitch
,
blench
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boycott
,
call in question
,
challenge
,
combat
,
combative reaction
,
complain
,
complaint
,
compunction
,
conscience
,
counteraction
,
cry out against
,
debate
,
defiance
,
deliberate
,
demonstrate
,
demonstrate against
,
demonstration
,
demurral
,
demurrer
,
deprecate
,
deprecation
,
difference
,
difficulty
,
diffidence
,
disagreement
,
disapproval
,
disapprove
,
disinclination
,
dispute
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
enter a protest
,
exception
,
expostulate
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fear
,
fight
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
fractiousness
,
gag
,
grievance
,
grievance committee
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hem and haw
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitate
,
hesitation
,
hold off
,
holler
,
hover
,
howl
,
hum and haw
,
indignation meeting
,
jib
,
kick
,
make bones about
,
march
,
modesty
,
negativism
,
noncooperation
,
nonviolent protest
,
object
,
objection
,
obstinacy
,
oppose
,
opposition
,
passive resistance
,
pause
,
picket
,
picketing
,
ponder
,
press objections
,
protest
,
protest demonstration
,
protestation
,
pull back
,
quail
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
question
,
raise a howl
,
rally
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
refractoriness
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
remonstrate
,
remonstration
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resist
,
resistance
,
retreat
,
revolt
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shyness
,
sit in
,
sit-in
,
squawk
,
stand
,
state a grievance
,
stick
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stickling
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain
,
strain at
,
strike
,
stumble
,
teach in
,
teach-in
,
think twice about
,
uncooperativeness
,
unwillingness
,
vacillate
,
variance
,
waver
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
withstanding
,
yell bloody murder
,
yield
caution
collapse
the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution"
judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair practices"
warn strongly; put on guard
related words >
TLC
,
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
advice
,
advise
,
advising
,
advocacy
,
alarm
,
alert
,
alerting
,
alertness
,
anticipation
,
attention
,
briefing
,
canniness
,
care
,
carefulness
,
caution money
,
cautioning
,
cautiousness
,
caveat
,
charge
,
circumspection
,
circumspectness
,
clue
,
collateral
,
collateral security
,
concern
,
consideration
,
consultation
,
council
,
counsel
,
cry havoc
,
cry out against
,
cue
,
daunt
,
deposit
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
deterrent example
,
diffidence
,
direction
,
discreetness
,
discretion
,
disinclination to believe
,
dissuade
,
encourage
,
enjoin
,
example
,
exhort
,
exhortation
,
expostulate
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
final notice
,
final warning
,
foresight
,
forethought
,
forewarn
,
forewarning
,
forfeit
,
frighten off
,
frightening off
,
give fair warning
,
give notice
,
give warning
,
guardedness
,
guidance
,
heed
,
heedfulness
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
hint
,
hortation
,
idea
,
incite
,
inconvincibility
,
incredulity
,
induce
,
injunction
,
instruction
,
intimidate
,
intimidation
,
issue a caveat
,
issue an ultimatum
,
kid out of
,
leeriness
,
lesson
,
loving care
,
margin
,
mindfulness
,
monition
,
moral
,
move
,
notice
,
notification
,
notify
,
object lesson
,
office
,
opinion
,
parley
,
passing word
,
persuade
,
pointer
,
preach
,
precaution
,
preconsideration
,
predeliberation
,
premeditation
,
preparedness
,
prompt
,
proposal
,
providence
,
prudence
,
recommendation
,
regard
,
regardfulness
,
remonstrance
,
remonstrate
,
resistiveness to belief
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
skepticism
,
solicitude
,
sound the alarm
,
stake
,
steer
,
suggestion
,
suspicion
,
suspiciousness
,
talk out of
,
talking out of
,
tender loving care
,
tentativeness
,
thought
,
thoughtfulness
,
threat
,
threaten
,
tip
,
tip off
,
tip-off
,
tough-mindedness
,
ultimatum
,
unconvincibility
,
uncredulousness
,
unpersuadability
,
unpersuade
,
unpersuasibility
,
urge
,
utter a caveat
,
verbum sapienti
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
warn
,
warn against
,
warning
,
warning piece
,
watchfulness
,
whisper
recoil
collapse
a movement back from an impact
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
related words >
about the bush
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
avoid
,
avoidance
,
backfire
,
backlash
,
backlashing
,
backwash
,
balk
,
bashfulness
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
blanch
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boomerang
,
bounce
,
bounce back
,
bound
,
bound back
,
cannon
,
cannon off
,
carom
,
clashing
,
clout
,
collision
,
comeback
,
compunction
,
conflict
,
confutation
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrecoup
,
counter
,
counteraction
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterposition
,
counterstroke
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cringe
,
crotchetiness
,
demur
,
demurral
,
diffidence
,
disapprove of
,
dissent
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evasion
,
exchange
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fallback
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fence
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
fly back
,
force
,
friction
,
funk
,
give-and-take
,
grimace
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
have repercussions
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitate
,
hesitation
,
hold off
,
impact
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
interchange
,
interference
,
jib
,
kick
,
kick back
,
kickback
,
lash back
,
look askance at
,
make bones about
,
mark
,
modesty
,
nonconformity
,
objection
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
parry
,
pause
,
perverseness
,
print
,
protest
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pullback
,
pullout
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
quake
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
reaction
,
rebound
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrate
,
recalcitration
,
reciprocation
,
reel back
,
reflex
,
renitency
,
repercuss
,
repercussion
,
reply
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resile
,
resilience
,
resistance
,
response
,
retaliation
,
retort
,
retreat
,
return
,
revolt
,
revolt at
,
ricochet
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shake
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
show distaste for
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shrink from
,
shrinking
,
shudder
,
shudder at
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
shyness
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
snap back
,
spring
,
spring back
,
squinch
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
step aside
,
stick
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stickling
,
strain
,
swerve
,
swimming upstream
,
tremble
,
turn aside
,
ward off
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
falter
collapse
move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
related words >
Bebung
,
abandon hope
,
back down
,
back out
,
balance
,
bashfulness
,
blench
,
blunder
,
bob
,
bobble
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
bounce
,
bump
,
careen
,
career
,
caution
,
cautiousness
,
chatter
,
chicken
,
chicken out
,
compunction
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
debate
,
delay
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
demurral
,
desert under fire
,
despair
,
despair of
,
despond
,
didder
,
diffidence
,
dillydally
,
dither
,
drag
,
faltering
,
fear
,
fight shy of
,
flag
,
flinch
,
flounce
,
flounder
,
flutter
,
funk
,
funk out
,
get cold feet
,
give up
,
give up hope
,
give way
,
goof off
,
grimace
,
halt
,
hang back
,
hang in doubt
,
hang off
,
have an ague
,
have qualms
,
haw
,
hem
,
hem and haw
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitate
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
hold off
,
hover
,
hum
,
hum and haw
,
hustle
,
jactitate
,
jar
,
jerk
,
jib
,
jig
,
jigget
,
jiggle
,
jog
,
joggle
,
jolt
,
jostle
,
jounce
,
jump
,
labor
,
lag
,
linger
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
lose courage
,
lose heart
,
lose hope
,
lurch
,
make bones about
,
mammer
,
modesty
,
objection
,
pause
,
pitch
,
pitch and plunge
,
plunge
,
ponder
,
protest
,
pull back
,
quail
,
quake
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
quaver
,
quiver
,
recoil
,
reel
,
retreat
,
rictus
,
rock
,
roll
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
scuttle
,
seethe
,
shake
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
shiver
,
shock
,
shrink
,
shrinking
,
shudder
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shyness
,
sink into despair
,
skedaddle
,
stagger
,
stammer
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stickling
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain
,
strain at
,
struggle
,
stumble
,
stutter
,
sway
,
swing
,
tarry
,
tentativeness
,
think twice
,
think twice about
,
thrash about
,
tic
,
topple
,
toss
,
toss and tumble
,
toss and turn
,
totter
,
trail
,
tremble
,
tremolando
,
tremolant
,
tremolo
,
tremor
,
trill
,
trillet
,
trilleto
,
trillo
,
tumble
,
twitch
,
twitter
,
vacillate
,
vibrate
,
vibrato
,
volutation
,
wallop
,
wallow
,
waste time
,
waver
,
welter
,
whine
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
wobble
,
yield
,
yield to despair
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