Stymie

Definition: Stymie

Stymie

Noun

1. A situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole.

2. A thwarting and distressing situation.

Verb

1. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Stymie \Sty"mie\, noun. Also Stimy \Sti"my\ . [Orig. uncertain.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stymie

Crosswords: Stymie

Swedish (stymie).

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

Business leaders sometimes use this practice to stymie unionization attempts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضع حرج (position, wall), ‏وضع عقبة, ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, tie, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трудно положение (jam, rat-trap, tight corner), безизходно положение (blind alley, checkmate, dead end, deadlock, impasse, no go). (various references)

Czech

překážet (get in the way, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, resist, restrain, tie up), bránit (cumber, defend, hinder, impede, keep, obstruct, trammel). (various references)

Farsi 

مانع شدن (Ail, Debar, Exclude, Hamper, Hinder, Holdup, Impede, Inhibit, Obstruct, Obturate, Prevent, Rein, Resist, Revoke, Stop, Suppress), قرارگرفتن (Lie, Perch, Sit, Stand), گیرکردن (Stick). (various references)

French

trou barré, mettre un obstacle, impasse (dead-end street, stalemate, stand off, standstill), entrave (stem, stick). (various references)

German

hindern (bar, be a hindrance, be disturbing, debar, deter, hamper, hinder, impede, incapacitate, inhibit, obstruct, prevent, prohibit, to detain, to embarrass, to inhibit, to stymie). (various references)

Greek 

εμποδίζω αντίπαλο. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עמי�" מכשול. (various references)

Hungarian

megakadályoz (balk, counteract, deny, estop, foil, hinder, hindrance, prevent, prohibit, restrain, to arrest, to avert, to balk, to bar, to baulk, to check, to encumber, to hinder, to impede, to inhibit, to interfere, to keep from, to preclude, to put off, to set back, to stymie, to thwart). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スタイミー . (various references)

Pig Latin

ymiestay

Russian 

безвыходное положение (blind alley, dead end, deadlock, impasse, labyrinth, no go, rat-trap, serbonian, stalemate), поставить в тупик (puzzle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staviti u neugodan položaj, položaj loptice, neugodan položaj. (various references)

Spanish

bloquear (block, blockade, cut off, lock, obstruct, secure, stop, tackle, tie up). (various references)

Swedish

stymie, hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, short circuit, snag, stay, trammel, traverse), hinder (balk, bar, block, check, cumber, curb, disqualification, drag, embargo, embarrassment, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, gorge, hazard, hedge, hindrance, hitch, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, object, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, trammel), försätta i trängt läge. (various references)

Thai

สถานการ�"์ที่ยากลำบาก (fix, stymy), ตำแหน่งลูกกอล์ฟที่ขวางทางอยู่ระหว่างหลุมกับลูกกอลฟ์ของฝ่ายตรงข้าม (stymy), ขั�"ขวาง (balk, bar, deter, forbid, hinder, rule out, stymy, suffocate, thwart). (various references)

Turkish

taş koymak (gum up, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, scupper), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, dam up, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, surety, trammel), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), alt etmek (bear the bell, beat, beat smb. hollow, best, carry away the bell, get the better of, overwhelm, score off, score smb. off, supplant, top, worst). (various references)

Ukrainian

безвихідне становище (bay, blind alley, impasse), поставити у безвихідне становище. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stymie": stymied, stymieing, stymies. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stymie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: skymie, stym, styme, stymee, styne, styymee, syme. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emits, items, metis, misty, mites, smite, stime, stimy, times, yetis.

-2 letters: emit, item, mise, mist, mite, mity, semi, site, smit, stem, stey, stye, ties, time, tyes, yeti.

-3 letters: ems, ism, its, met, mis, sei, set, sim, sit, sty, tie, tis, tye, yes, yet.

-4 letters: em, es, et, is, it, me, mi, my, si, ti.

+1 letter: mistype, stymied, stymies.

+2 letters: daytimes, isometry, misentry, misstyle, mistyped, mistypes, myelitis, mystique, mythiest, smithery, steamily, symbiote, systemic, taleysim, thymiest, thymines, yummiest.

+3 letters: bimethyls, chemistry, demystify, dimethyls, dosimetry, dynamites, erythrism, estimably, immensity, immodesty, lysimeter, martyries, misstyled, misstyles, mylonites, mysteries, mystified, mystifier, mystifies, mystiques, playtimes, solemnity, stymieing, symbiotes, symmetric, systemics, systemize, testimony, timeously, tympanies, tyramines.