The AI-powered English dictionary
third-person singular simple present stammers, present participle stammering, simple past and past participle stammered
(intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech. examples
(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy. quotations examples
The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi
plural stammers
The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech. examples
A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer examples