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Nouns (2)

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stammer, stutter

n. a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds

Verbs (4)

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bumble, stutter, stammer, falter

v. speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

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Fuzzynyms (41)

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fail, go wrong, miscarry

v. be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

stumble, falter, bumble

v. walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

v. behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"

stagger, flounder

v. walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

v. fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

worsen, decline

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

drop

v. fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop"

waste, waste away, diminish

v. become diminished

v. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

decline, go down, wane

v. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

v. become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

v. utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

warble, trill, quaver

v. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

sputter, splutter

v. utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

v. go down; "The roof declines here"

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Antonyms (6)

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pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say

v. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

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