STUTTERED Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

stuttered

verb

past tense of stutter

as in stammered

to speak with many involuntary pauses and repetitions I used to stutter when I was a child. She stutters when she gets excited.

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Recent Examples of stuttered Cigarette butts littered the ground; a motorcycle stuttered past, too loud. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026 Despite such quality and depth, Portugal stuttered to the knockout stage with two draws and a single victory to finish second in Group K and set up a round-of-32 clash with Croatia. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2026 But the team stuttered against the Philadelphia Eagles and then against the Atlanta Falcons in weeks 3 and 4. — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024

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This leads to Gregory asking about Lord Anderson, but before Violet has even stammered her way through two words, Benedict whips in like a bat outta hell.

— Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026

Definition of stammered

Verb

The convex-concave curves of the open and closed parentheses cup something said by the way, whisperings, secrets mouthed into the reader’s ear, mumbled under the author’s breath.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
This succession was muddied thanks to the meddling of the King’s Hand, Otto Hightower, and the king’s own mumbled words on his deathbed to his wife, Alicent.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026

Definition of mumbled

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Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.

— Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026

Definition of drooled

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Sais said the men shouted homophobic and racist slurs before punching him, knocking him to the ground and leaving him with injuries to his face and head.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
The man called the flight attendant, who is Black, a racial slur and also shouted anti-gay remarks, according to the outlet.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of shouted

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Fans shrieked and hollered as every player in the realmwide war — Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), Prince Daemon (Matt Smith), the Sea Snake (Steve Toussaint) and his nemesis Lohar (Abigail Thorn) — popped up.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 June 2026
As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026

Definition of shrieked

Verb

Then in the Super Bowl while New England's offense sputtered, Gonzalez did his best to keep the team in the game with several key pass breakups.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
But back home in the 305, Brady and Earle were never spotted together again, at least in public, and talk of their possible budding situationship sputtered.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of sputtered

Verb

This was 1872, and the pious (and patronizing) commentators of the time muttered that Damien’s unvarnished personality was due to his simple farm upbringing in rural Belgium.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Bat met ball and, under his breath, Astros manager Joe Espada muttered an expletive.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 June 2026

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