Meaning of संकोच in English

The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
A faltering in speech; stammering.
Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
A side throw; a throw; a fling.
The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
A stammering; a faltering in speech.
Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
Unready in speech.
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
To stammer; to falter in speaking.
To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
of Hesitate
With hesitation or doubt.
Showing, or characterized by, hesitation.
Hesitating.
Alt. of Hesternal
Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a.
See under Hunt.