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单词 stutter
释义 stut·ter
I. \ˈstəd.ə(r), -ətə-\ verb
(stuttered ; stuttered ; stuttering \-əd.əriŋ, -ətər-, -ə.tr-\ ; stutters)
Etymology: freq. of stut, from Middle English stutten; akin to Dutch stotteren to stutter, Middle Low German stotern, stötern to stutter, Old High German stōzan to thrust, push, Latin tundere to beat — more at stint
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to speak with involuntary disruption or blocking of speech (as by spasmodic repetition or prolongation of vocal sounds) — compare stammer
 b. : to make sounds similar to or in the manner of a stutter
  < thunder which stuttered far away in the distant ranges — Jean Stafford >
  < listens to the stuttering, muttering rumble of war — Times Literary Supplement >
  < the one candle stuttering like an idiot's tongue — Edith Sitwell >
2. : to move or act in a halting or spasmodic manner
 < schools are stuttering to an end — Isis >
 < a brilliant idea stands still and stuttering — V.S.Pritchett >
transitive verb
: to say, speak, or sound with or as if with a stutter
 < can only stutter his reply >
— often used with out
 < the telegraph ticked the gladdest message … when it stuttered out its first letters — L.D.Lewis >
stut·ter·er noun
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an act or instance of stuttering
 < can hardly speak without a stutter >
 < the stutter of the rain along the balconies — Elizabeth Bowen >
 < the heavy stutter of aerial fire — Walt Sheldon >
2. : stuttering 2
 < had a stutter but he was quite understandable — O.S.J.Gogarty >
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