0 to prevent something from happening or someone from achieving a purpose:
1 to prevent someone from achieving a goal or doing something that had been planned:
Students were stymied by the test.
However, these goals were frequently stymied by the same strong historical consciousness the leaders were trying to utilize.
Its radical potential is stymied, however, by an overly narrow focus on women's equal participation in public life.
The issue of whether reduplicative words as a whole are trochaic, iambic, or even spondaic, has stymied their description for a long time.
Several formidable hurdles still exist, however, that stymie research progress in the area.
This process, which seems to be intuitively logical, is stymied by imprecise professional knowledge and underdeveloped technology for language analysis and inference.
Attempts to quantify either the violence or mortality have been stymied by a lack of evidence.
On the other hand, the standardized good seems to stymie the archaeologist; it does not enlist the skill set of identifying, classifying and comparing.
For example, nationalisation of the telegraph system (in 1870) and the telephone system (in 1912) may have stymied efficiency by removing the pressure of competition.
