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stammer

verb as in stutter in speech

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Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Laven attended regular social events and in-person meetings which provided frequent opportunities to speak and helped provide the necessary practice for his stammer.

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That’s the reality for Will Laven, an operations executive for Publicis Media, who has a stammer that has become accentuated as a direct result of the enforced remote working thrust on most industries in the last nine months.

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That all warms up my stammer ready for when I have a meeting or a catch up with my team.

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All she could stammer, however, was, “It would be an honor.”

As an adult, I have heard people affecting a stammer or a stutter.

This was the unhappy and astonishing birth of my stammer or at least my first gripping self-conscious awareness of it.

But I also had an index in the back of my diary that explained that famul meant stutter of stammer.

Malcolm was hardly able to stammer his acceptance of the appointment thus offered, but the General had no time for useless talk.

He becomes quiet and less boisterous only to stammer out some idle talk and some nonsense.

There was nothing in the question to make me blush and stammer, yet I did both.

We must pass over Peter as usual, or will you try again once more—I will not say to read, but to stammer through a sentence.

He began to stammer out something like gentleness, and something like reproof.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stammer, such as: sputter, wobble, falter, halt, hammer, and hesitate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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