Usually means: Hinders, obstructs, or impedes progress.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stymies: Merriam-Webster
  2. stymies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stymies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stymies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Stymies, stymies: Wordnik
  6. stymies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stymies: Wiktionary
  8. stymies: Dictionary.com
  9. stymies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. stymies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stymies: Legal dictionary

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  1. stymies: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stymie)

noun:  (golf) 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).
noun:  (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
verb:  To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
verb:  (golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
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