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Stymie
//ˈstaɪmi//
Synonyms for "stymie" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
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Translations
39 translations across 18 languages.
Catalan
4 entries- bloquejar verb (to thwart or stump)
- contrariar verb (to thwart or stump)
- destorbar verb (to thwart or stump)
- empallegar verb (to thwart or stump)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 阻礙 /阻碍 verb (to thwart or stump)
Dutch
3 entries- belemmeren verb (to thwart or stump)
- hinderen verb (to thwart or stump)
- ten val brengen verb (to thwart or stump)
Finnish
2 entries- lannistaa verb (to thwart or stump)
- nujertaa verb (to thwart or stump)
French
2 entries- mettre en échec verb (to thwart or stump)
- obstruer verb (to thwart or stump)
German
1 entries- lahmlegen verb (to thwart or stump)
Greek
1 entries- ματαιώνω verb (to thwart or stump)
Hungarian
1 entries- meghiúsít verb (to thwart or stump)
Irish
2 entries- caoch verb (to thwart or stump)
- déan idirluí ar verb (to thwart or stump)
Italian
4 entries- intrigare verb (to thwart or stump)
- mettere in ginocchio verb (to thwart or stump)
- ostacolare verb (to thwart or stump)
- ostruire verb (to thwart or stump)
Japanese
1 entries- 追い詰める verb (to thwart or stump)
Māori
1 entries- kaiwaenga verb (to thwart or stump)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- dekke verb (to thwart or stump)
- sette i en vanskelig stilling verb (to thwart or stump)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dekkje verb (to thwart or stump)
- setje i ei vanskeleg stilling verb (to thwart or stump)
Portuguese
3 entries- impedir verb (to thwart or stump)
- obstruir verb (to thwart or stump)
- obstruir verb (to thwart or stump)
Russian
4 entries- загна́ть в у́гол verb (to thwart or stump)
- загоня́ть в у́гол verb (to thwart or stump)
- поста́вить в тупи́к verb (to thwart or stump)
- ста́вить в тупи́к verb (to thwart or stump)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- onemogućavati verb (to thwart or stump)
- zaprečiti verb (to thwart or stump)
- zapriječiti verb (to thwart or stump)
Spanish
1 entries- impedir, obstruir verb (to thwart or stump)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
Source: wiktionary
If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/
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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.
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