verbWord forms: -mies, -mieing, -mied, -mies, -mying or -mied(tr; often passive)
1.
to hinder or thwart
2. golf
to impede with a stymie
nounWord forms: plural-mies
3. golf
(formerly) a situation on the green in which an opponent's ball is blocking the linebetween the hole and the ball about to be played: an obstructing ball may now be lifted and replaced by a marker
4.
a situation of obstruction
Word origin
C19: of uncertain origin
Examples of 'stymied' in a sentence
stymied
The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being sodim.
Forbes, Bryan A SONG AT TWILIGHT
It was a crucial retraction that in effect stymied the entire vote-rigging inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Their outlook is bleak: ever hopeful, but ever stymied.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
These alliances stymied his declared intention to tackle extremists.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I refuse to be stymied by social convention.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They say they were stymied by corrupt colleagues.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Rail plans are stymied, locked in court battles or simply put on hold.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But such policy development has long been stymied.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
That stymied the chances of men having it here.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Those have been shed, along with the inhibitions that stymied him earlier.