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stammer

/stam-er/US // ˈstæm ər //UK // (ˈstæmə) //

口吃,支支吾吾,结巴,支支吾吾的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to say with a stammer.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stammering mode of utterance.
    • : a stammered utterance.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.