stuttered; stuttering; stutters
1
: to speak with involuntary disruption or blocking of speech (as by repetition or prolongation of vocal sounds)
2
: to move or act in a halting or spasmodic manner
the old jalopy bucks and stutters uphill—
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: to say, speak, or sound with or as if with a stutter
1
: an act or instance of stuttering
2
: the habitual tendency to stutter
had a mild stutter
: stuttering
Examples of stutter in a Sentence
Verb
I used to stutter when I was a child.
She stutters when she gets excited.
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Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The forward has scored 43 per cent of their goals this season, propping up their stuttering attack.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
The Lions fall to 4-2 with the defeat while the Chiefs continue to correct their stuttering start to the year by improving to 3-3.
—Ben Morse, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
Contrast that with Robert Lewandowski, whose stutter, pause, judder, wait for the ’keeper to dive and then place it wide of the post didn’t work for Barcelona during their surprise defeat away to Sevilla a few hours later.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Think instant load times for every map and no stutter, even during the most chaotic firefights.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Stutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stutter. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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stutter
1 of 2 intransitive verb
stut·ter
ˈstət-ər 
: to speak with involuntary disruption or blocking of speech (as by repetition or prolongation of vocal sounds)
: to say, speak, or sound with or as if with a stutter
stutter
2 of 2 noun1
: an act or instance of stuttering
2
: the habitual tendency to stutter
had a mild stutter
: stuttering sense 2
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