[
US
/ˈstæmɝ/
]
[ UK /stˈæmɐ/ ]
[ UK /stˈæmɐ/ ]
VERB
-
speak haltingly
The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room
NOUN
- a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
How To Use stammer In A Sentence
- A speech therapist helped him overcome his stammer.
- Whenever he was angry he would begin to stammer slightly.
- ‘Good boy,’ he finally grunted when he was sure he could speak without stammering.
- I stammer something about the duty-free shops at Sydney airport. Times, Sunday Times
- The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.
- A stammering child can benefit from speech therapy.
- Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
- Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
- He stammered something and went very red in the face.
- I admired his fearlessness with Couples, marvelled at the word acrobatics in the Rabbit series, read of his psoriasis, childhood stammering and problems of self-image, counted the novels and short stories and wondered, 'How does he do it?' Daily News & Analysis
