Usually means: Hinder or block progress, plans.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stymie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stymie: Merriam-Webster
  3. stymie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stymie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stymie: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stymie: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stymie, stymie: Wordnik
  8. stymie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stymie: Wiktionary
  10. stymie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stymie (stymy): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stymie: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stymie: Dictionary.com
  14. stymie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stymie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stymie (disambiguation), Stymie (horse), Stymie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. stymie: Rhymezone
  18. stymie: FreeDictionary.org
  19. stymie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Stymie: The Word Detective
  21. stymie: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. stymie: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stymie: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stymie: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stymie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stymie: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stymie: Croquet
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. stymie: Golfer's Dictionary

(Note: See stymied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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