Stutter vs Deny - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
To exhaust a gas with difficulty
A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
(obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.
To not allow.
* 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI
To assert that something is not true.
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To disallow
to refuse to give or grant something to someone
* J. Edwards
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(sports) To prevent from scoring.
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Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}} To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
* Bancroft
* Keble
(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
* Shakespeare
Stutter is a related term of deny.
In lang=en terms the difference between stutter and deny
is that stutter is to exhaust a gas with difficulty while deny is to refuse to give or grant something to someone.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between stutter and deny
is that stutter is (obsolete) one who stutters; a stammerer while deny is (obsolete) to refuse (to do or accept something).As verbs the difference between stutter and deny
is that stutter is (ambitransitive) to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds while deny is to not allow.As a noun stutter
is a speech disorder characterised by stuttering.stutter
English
(wikipedia stutter)Verb
(en verb)- He stuttered a few words of thanks.
- The engine of the old car stuttered''' going up the slope. I was '''stuttering after the marathon .
Synonyms
* (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammerNoun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* stammerDerived terms
* covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbsdeny
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .
- 'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
- I deny that I was at the party.
- Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
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- My father denied me a good education.
- To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
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- the falsehood of denying his opinion
- thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved
- if you deny to dance