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Definition of 'stymie'English
Alternative forms
* stimy, stymy
Noun
( en-noun)
An obstacle or obstruction.
(golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green.
Verb
( d)
To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
- They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
* {{quote-news|year=2007|date=January 21|author=Joyce Cohen|title=Beauty in the Eye of the Renter|work=New York Times citation
|passage=I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me. }}
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