How to pronounce“stymie”in English
verbYoung person, you'll find in your life that sometimes your great ambitions will be momentarily
stymied, thwarted, marginalized by those who were perhaps luckier, come from money, where
more doors opened, where college was a given--it was not a student loan; it was something that Dad paid for--to where an ease and confidence in life was almost a birthright, where for
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Definitions of “stymie”
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).
An obstacle or obstruction.
“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?”
To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
“They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.”
To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
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