transitive. To utter or read out or over with frequent hems or coughs. hem in: to throw in or interject with a hem. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak or utter (words, etc.) with a stutter or stammer. rare.

with forth, out. Also figurative.

transitive. to hack out: to stammer out. Obsolete.

transitive. To utter or say with a stammer.

transitive. To falter, stammer (out); also intransitive with through.

transitive. To utter with a lisp or lispingly (also with out). In extended use, to utter with childlike, imperfect, or faltering articulation; to…

transitive. To say or speak with a stutter. Also with out and figurative.

transitive. To express or say with hesitation.

to falter forthor out: to utter hesitatingly or with difficulty; to stammer forth. Also (poetic), To breathe out (the soul) by gasps.

figurative. To proceed irregularly and haltingly in action or speech; (of verse) to have an irregular or halting rhythm, to ‘limp’. Also transitive…

transitive; with quoted words as object.