Usually means: Hinder or prevent the progress.
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  1. stymy: Collins English Dictionary
  2. stymy: Vocabulary.com
  3. Stymy: Wordnik
  4. stymy: Wiktionary
  5. stymy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. stymy: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. stymy: Dictionary.com
  8. stymy: Rhymezone
  9. stymy: FreeDictionary.org
  10. stymy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. stymy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stymy: Legal dictionary

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  1. stymy: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Stymy)

noun:  Alternative spelling of stymie [(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).]
verb:  Alternative spelling of stymie [To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.]

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