transcription, транскрипция: [ stʌtə(r) ]
( stutters, stuttering, stuttered)
1.
If someone has a stutter , they find it difficult to say the first sound of a word, and so they often hesitate or repeat it two or three times.
He spoke with a pronounced stutter.
= stammer
N-COUNT : usu sing
2.
If someone stutters , they have difficulty speaking because they find it hard to say the first sound of a word.
I was trembling so hard, I thought I would stutter when I spoke.
= stammer
VERB : V
• stut‧ter‧ing
He had to stop talking because if he’d kept on, the stuttering would have started.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If something stutters along, it progresses slowly and unevenly.
The old truck stuttered along the winding road...
The political debate stutters on.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv