I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Other children often teased me because I stuttered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A string of shots stuttered nearby.
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Carter stuttered as a child and burns now with an eloquence that takes him over from time to time.
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Now he raised his hand, but when Mason called on him Boris began to stutter .
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Savio, a shy man who stuttered before small groups, was riveting and compelling when he spoke to thousands.
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That night I began to stutter .
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The engine was stuttering and cutting out.
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There was a small refrigerator which stuttered and hummed in the night, and some kitchen things.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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You can't hear Ron's stutter when he sings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.
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Despite a terrible stutter , he emerged as a gifted teacher.
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Herman Katz was a thin, youngish man with nervous eyes and a slight stutter .
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I played a character in Birmingham with a limp and a stutter and they said I was overdoing it.