stammer

Plural: stammers

Noun

• a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
• The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
• A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer

Verb

Verb Forms: stammered, stammering, stammers

• To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions, often due to difficulty.
• speak haltingly
• To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
• To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

Examples

• He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
• He would stammer his apologies after blocking his opponent’s crucial word.
• She said goodbye in a stammer.

Synonyms

bumble, falter, stutter, balbucinate, balbutiate, croak, drawl, gibber, hacker, hammer, haw, hesitate, hum and haw, jabber, mince, mouth, muffle, mumble, mump, mutter, splutter, sputter, stammer

Antonyms

annunciate, articulate

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