STUTTER


Meaning of STUTTER in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Other children often teased me because I stuttered.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A string of shots stuttered nearby.

Carter stuttered as a child and burns now with an eloquence that takes him over from time to time.

Now he raised his hand, but when Mason called on him Boris began to stutter .

Savio, a shy man who stuttered before small groups, was riveting and compelling when he spoke to thousands.

That night I began to stutter .

The engine was stuttering and cutting out.

There was a small refrigerator which stuttered and hummed in the night, and some kitchen things.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

You can't hear Ron's stutter when he sings.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.

Despite a terrible stutter , he emerged as a gifted teacher.

Herman Katz was a thin, youngish man with nervous eyes and a slight stutter .

I played a character in Birmingham with a limp and a stutter and they said I was overdoing it.

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