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/ˈstaɪmi/ · 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)..
Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
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It constrained governments, businesses and labour unions to collaborate in planning increased rates of output and the conditions likely to facilitate them. And above all, it blocked any return to the temptations that had so stymied the inter-war economy: under-production, mutually destructive protectionism, and a collapse of trade.
I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me.
In populations that have “burst” and “path” structures, for example, individuals can never occupy positions in the graph that their ancestors held. Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population.
For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
Since Israel’s ground war began in Gaza over a year and a half ago, it has followed a consistent pattern of raiding key militant strongholds and then withdrawing forces, alongside periodic stymieing of food aid.
Use stymie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stymie means (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)..
Common synonyms include block, thwart, bog down, hamper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
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