I. verb
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Patterson often stammered during speeches.
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Benjamin stammered out an apologetic request - how he would appreciate it if no one else was told about our visit.
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Forgive me, he stammered, if I press when I should not.
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Labour voices have been stammering to oblige.
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Now, she stammered in his presence, gone the blustery Trudy her girlfriends knew.
II. noun
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"G-g-get up," she said with a slight stammer .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had even developed the beginnings of a stammer .
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It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer .
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Rivers was a shy, reticent man hampered by a stammer .
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Speech therapy teaches people different techniques enabling them to control their stammer and help them in conversation.
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The stammer fitted Marlowe's embarrassment and Bernard got a very good press.