Definizione monolingua

stymie

stymie (third-person singular simple present stymies, present participle stymieing, simple past and past participle stymied)

1. 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.

   • 2007 January 21, Joyce Cohen, “Beauty in the Eye of the Renter”, New York Times:

     I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me.

stymie (plural stymies)

1. An obstacle or obstruction.
2. (golf) A situation where an opponents ball is directly in the way of ones own ball and the hole, on the putting green.

Definizione dizionario stymie

	ostacolare
	to thwart or stump

	ostruire
	to thwart or stump

Altri significati:

To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.

(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.

An obstacle or obstruction.

stymie (golf)