Crossword clues for stammered
stammered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stammered (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stammering.] [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n, stamm[=e]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma, OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf. Stem to resist, Stumble.] To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and difficulty; to stutter.
I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour
this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out
of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or
none at all.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Of speech, that sounds irregular or halting. v
(en-past of: stammer)
Usage examples of "stammered".
Wulfgar stammered, so overcome by the magnificent gift that he could hardly speak.
Drizzt stammered in the broken accent of denizens of the underworld, as though the common tongue of the surface was foreign to him.
Harkle stammered, amazed at the courage she had shown in light of the terrible events that had befallen her and her friends.
Dinin stammered, barely able to get the word out of his suddenly dry mouth.
Regis stammered, fighting hard to improvise for the consequences of failure were all too evident.
Dondon stammered, a fairly common reaction from those faced with the spectre of Artemis Entreri.
Nora knew she was expressing things badly and stammered on: "Father'd always expected that Nick would be the Computer Technician and--well, it wasn't socially harmonious to do anything else just then.
The boards on both bridges reported a spatial object, travelling at an impossible speed, spinning about Botany at what Marrucci stammered had to be damned near the speed of light.
After she had made a stammered confession--in private--to the Weyrleaders, she had agreed to keep her ability to herself and be discreet at all times in exercising this unique talent.
She stammered unable to express the upheaval in her mind, the reversal of all that she had been expected to do.
He gulped and stammered, until he caught his brother's smug expression.
Instead he stammered, 'Excuse me, I hope you don't mind my butting in?
Sorry,” she stammered, and dropped the receiver clattering into the cradle.
Theada stammered, "I only h-have about three hundred metacycles at the controls-and some simulator time.
You may win trophies atshows, but you’ve got the perception of a blind worm’ “I don’t understand,” stammered Fen.