different between recount vs stutter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nt

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.

Noun

recount (plural recounts)

1. Narration, account, description, rendering

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Verb

recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)

1. To tell; narrate; to relate in detail

   The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.

2. (dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.

   to recount one's blessings

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Etymology 2

From re- +? count

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i??ka?nt/

Noun

recount (plural recounts)

1. A counting again, as of votes.

Translations

Verb

recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)

1. To count again.

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Anagrams

• Counter, Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, counter, counter-, countre, trounce

English

Etymology

From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Verb

stutter (third-person singular simple present stutters, present participle stuttering, simple past and past participle stuttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

   He stuttered a few words of thanks.

2. (intransitive) 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

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Noun

stutter (plural stutters)

1. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

   Synonym: stammer

2. (obsolete) One who stutters.

   Synonyms: stutterer, stammerer

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,^[1]

     And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.

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Derived terms

Anagrams

• Truetts, tutters