Stammering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STAMMERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words
• say something with difficulty, repeating the initial letters of words and with sudden involuntary pauses
NOUN:
• the act of stammering
• a tendency to stammer
• A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
ADJECTIVE:
• hesitant
• Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses

Words related to STAMMERING

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Words that contain STAMMERING

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How to use STAMMERING in a sentence

• When you speak, it is not with stammering incompetence, but with confident readiness.
• Joppa had learned by heart its duty toward its neighbor from its earliest, stammering infancy, and it adhered strictly to the path therein marked out.
• In a moment he became all lover, pleading, entreating, with the one great abandon of his life, with the stammering eloquence of unspeakable desire! Slowly the girl turned to him.
• Ferragut saw in the center of a group of ladies a young English girl, blond, slender, elegant, who was sobbing and stammering explanations.
• Happy would some friend near him be to hear the half-tender, half-witty, yet most appreciative conceit which should first come stammering from his lips.
• He heard himself stammering, he felt that his whole bearing had become drooping and abject.
• With a stammering tongue, therefore, I call upon Thee, O my God, and with this my afflicted pen I occupy myself in remembrance of Thy name.
• He was an awkward, stammering boy in the Library yesterday.
• In learning and letters, in art and the science of government, America is but a faint and stammering echo of Europe.
• And he was not a man who, in speaking, had any stammering of tongue.
• A stammering Tarahumare was observed, the only Indian with this defect that has come to my notice.
• Terrified he stood, Stammering, and sounding through his lips the clash Of chattering teeth, with visage deadly wan.
• My great help in stammering was to kick with my right foot.
• But Will Sampson, the stammering chairman, was to tell his story, and though the cold evening made them button up their coats, they determined to have one more good time together.
• What with the stammering man and the barking dog, I was at my wits end to find out the trouble.
• Elisabeth could no more help flirting than some people can help stammering.
• He felt like a stammering fool when Anthony was around.
• The words that came to his lips were disconnected and stammering.
• The night clerk sized me up for precisely what I was, listening with only half an ear to my stammering question.
• Katy, for her part, drank a cup of coffee but ate little, though the Inhabitant offered her the best he had with a voice stammering with emotion.
• Had Dick been actually guilty, he might either have betrayed himself, or gone to stammering.
• No! I should not have spoken thus, for I should not have known! I should have stood stammering, full of a truth throbbing within me, choking, unconfessable truth.
• Andy was friendly that day, and talked eagerly in a shrill, stammering voice.
• There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated.
• Expecting, I shall wait till at my door I see you enter, each and every one Tumultuous, eager all, with clamorous speech, To hide my stammering welcome and my tears.
• It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song.
• After stammering and blushing and bowing, he completely broke down in his effort to make a speech, and briefly introduced the presiding officer of the meeting, Daniel Webster.
• And the voice spake anew, by turns shrill, stifled, bleating, stammering, yelling, fearsome.
• Hanmer hurriedly hid his pipe and scrambled up, stammering an apology.
• Then came Hardie, halting and stammering a little as he began his address.
• He did not see the contemptuous amusement in her face, and went on, stammering a little because he had at last brought himself to say something that had been on his mind for days.
• Sometimes he could talk away without any hesitation, but if the stammering once began, there was nothing for it but to give up the attempt for that time.

Similar words containing STAMMER without suffix ing

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