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present participle of stutter
Synonyms & Antonyms of stuttering
to speak with many involuntary pauses and repetitions
- I used to stutter when I was a child.
- She stutters when she gets excited.
Synonyms and Near Synonyms for stuttering
- babbling,
- bumbling,
- chattering,
- chatting,
- driveling
- (or drivelling),
- drooling,
- gabbling,
- gibbering,
- jabbering,
- prattling,
- sputtering
- blabbering,
- blathering,
- bleating,
- blithering,
- gabbing,
- jangling,
- jawing,
- pattering,
- prating,
- rattling,
- running on,
- smattering,
- tittle-tattling,
- trolling,
- yakking
- (also yacking)
- chuntering
- [British],
- maundering,
- mouthing,
- mumbling,
- murmuring,
- muttering
Antonyms and Near Antonyms for stuttering
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The first known use of stuttering was in 1595
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