stuttered
- 1Simple past and past participle of stutter.
The nervous witness stuttered through his testimony.
The cold engine stuttered for a moment and then caught.
Note
One spelling does double duty here: the simple past (she stuttered) and the participle after have (she had stuttered). Because the speech meaning can take an object, the participle also works in the passive or before a noun: a stuttered apology, the words were stuttered out. The meaning of expelling gas with difficulty takes no object, so it stays active: the exhaust stuttered, but nothing 'was stuttered'.
He stuttered an apology and hurried out of the room.
Her name was stuttered so badly that no one in the hall caught it.
stuttered is a form of stutter
stutter, verb: To speak with a spasmodic, involuntary repetition of vocal sounds, especially at the start of words. Full entry
- Forms
- stutterstutters he/she/itstuttering -ing formstuttered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- stutter → stuttered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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