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.
Surely flame wars over article content will stymie good intentions.
The periods before and after this interlude saw far more political controversy which stymied other civic improvements.
Attempts to clarify the general rules are stymied by the need to avoid impairment of these contractual relations.
The implementation of participatory policies is often stymied by the limits of time and money, bureaucratic infighting and external pressures from powerful elite groups.
A second pilgrimage was stymied en route and again resulted in prison sentences for pass violations and trespass.
Defeated, stymied by the bar across this gate, they all give up and retreat to their desks.
This is a vivid example of how efforts at reform are stymied by the persistent ministry efforts to maximize its interventionist role.
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.
