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Verbalize vs Stutter - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between verbalize and stutter

is that verbalize is to speak or to use words to express while stutter is to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

As a noun stutter is

a speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

verbalize

English

Alternative forms

* verbalise

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To speak or to use words to express.
  • Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.
  • (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
  • stutter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
  • He stuttered a few words of thanks.
  • To exhaust a gas with difficulty
  • The engine of the old car stuttered''' going up the slope. I was '''stuttering after the marathon .

    Synonyms

    * (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
  • (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * stammer

    Derived terms

    * covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbs