stymie
IPA: stˈaɪmi
noun
- (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 (abolished 1952).
- (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
verb
- To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
- (golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
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Examples of "stymie" in Sentences
- The work was stymied by villian.
- Senior lenders can't stymie them.
- Legal risks can stymie the adoption.
- Ruling could possibly stymie Wolfe trial.
- Winter weather continues to stymie travelers.
- The effect has been to stymie meaningful progress.
- The authorities want to put Stymie into an orphanage.
- Its heavy armor was what stymied the Germans in 1941.
- A stymie refers to an archaic rule in the game of golf.
- Workforce issues stymie federal acquisition improvements.
- So hammerer sounds like you want to stymie the free market capitalism of the insurance companies.
- It's still unclear whether AAR is seeking to participate in the Rosneft-BP partnership or to stymie it completely.
- That's right, the bitch is flaming mad (you can tell by the use of the word "stymie"), and not gonna take it anymore.
- Sony has admitted to the Economist that certain Japanese executives tried to "stymie" his new vision for the Company.
- He had a great game, but fortunately we had a balance enough of attack to kind of stymie whatever he was able to do, '' Gordon said.
- Republicans can expect "a rather dismal future" with Hispanic voters if they stymie reform or tolerate heated anti-immigrant rhetoric, he argued.
- This is a very useful stroke to practise, for the particular kind of stymie to which it applies occurs very frequently, and is one of the most exasperating of all.
- But former city Lord Mayor Cllr Dermot Lacey (Lab) says there is opposition to the new post from a 'coalition of Fianna Fáil backbenchers and bureaucrats' who want to 'stymie'
- That situation was called a stymie, and the term came to mean any block or obstruction. tee off; teed off To tee off is to begin the play of a hole by driving the ball off the tee.