Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of.
A situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole.
1 The National Rifle Association is already attempting to stymy a possible background check bill proposed by President Trump.
2 David Shanks says again, this is a fair point, but fear of tyranny isn't a valid reason to stymy change.
3 He also bemoaned a lack of media diversity that stymies political debate.
4 For example, physicists were stymied trying to explain why hot things glowed.
5 But the very makeup of federal fishery-management bodies has stymied greater changes.
6 Thus, though the weather slowed Gaborn, it had stymied the reavers completely.
7 She says she soon felt stymied by the dogma of the church.
8 Had it been upheld, it would have stymied Berlusconi's immediate political ambitions.
9 Our attempts to get a multiplayer Achievement were stymied time and again.
10 Stymied , he'd spent much of the time since about 1670 doing-what ,exactly
11 At other times, the choreography seems stymied and forced into two dimensions.
12 Forty percent said they've spent three hours or more in stymied traffic.
13 If it hasn't produced acorns, he is stymied for the time being.
14 And by keeping the yuan artificially low, it is stymying global rebalancing.
15 Such airdrops had earlier been stymied by heavy rain and cloud cover.
16 But Penn was stymied in his efforts to go negative against Obama.
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