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stymied
[ stahy-meed ]
adjective
- hindered, blocked, or thwarted:
In this drama he plays a stymied professor of history who has never managed to become department head.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of stymie.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stymied1
Example Sentences
That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled – and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.
But the need is great, complicated by the street drugs some people use for self-medication, and progress is often stymied by multiple forces despite billions of dollars worth of investments in solutions.
Phuket was the first place in Thailand to reopen in 2021 after the pandemic stymied international travel in much of the world.
They could also be stymied by technological failures such as power outages and disrupted cellphone signals.
This time, Brady was in the broadcast booth for Fox, and the guy chasing his seven rings was stymied at every turn.
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