Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stymie
Participle: stymied
Gerund: stymiing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | stymie |
| you | stymie |
| he;she;it | stymies |
| we | stymie |
| you | stymie |
| they | stymie |
Perfect
| I | have stymied |
| you | have stymied |
| he;she;it | has stymied |
| we | have stymied |
| you | have stymied |
| they | have stymied |
Past
| I | stymied |
| you | stymied |
| he;she;it | stymied |
| we | stymied |
| you | stymied |
| they | stymied |
Pluperfect
| I | had stymied |
| you | had stymied |
| he;she;it | had stymied |
| we | had stymied |
| you | had stymied |
| they | had stymied |
Future
| I | will stymie |
| you | will stymie |
| he;she;it | will stymie |
| we | will stymie |
| you | will stymie |
| they | will stymie |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stymied |
| you | will have stymied |
| he;she;it | will have stymied |
| we | will have stymied |
| you | will have stymied |
| they | will have stymied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stymie |
| you | stymie |
| he;she;it | stymie |
| we | stymie |
| you | stymie |
| they | stymie |
Perfect
| I | have stymied |
| you | have stymied |
| he;she;it | have stymied |
| we | have stymied |
| you | have stymied |
| they | have stymied |
Imperfect
| I | stymied |
| you | stymied |
| he;she;it | stymied |
| we | stymied |
| you | stymied |
| they | stymied |
Pluperfect
| I | had stymied |
| you | had stymied |
| he;she;it | had stymied |
| we | had stymied |
| you | had stymied |
| they | had stymied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stymie |
| you | would stymie |
| he;she;it | would stymie |
| we | would stymie |
| you | would stymie |
| they | would stymie |
Perfect
| I | would have stymied |
| you | would have stymied |
| he;she;it | would have stymied |
| we | would have stymied |
| you | would have stymied |
| they | would have stymied |
Imperative
| you | stymie |
| we | Let's stymie |
| you | stymie |
Verbs conjugated like 'stymie'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stymie'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime. See: Scots '
stime', Scots '
styme'.
Sample Sentences
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They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
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If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/
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It constrained governments, businesses and labour unions to collaborate in planning increased rates of output and the conditions likely to facilitate them. And above all, it blocked any return to the temptations that had so stymied the inter-war economy: under-production, mutually destructive protectionism, and a collapse of trade. [2005, Tony Judt, “The Rehabilitation of Europe”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:]
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I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me. [2007 January 21, Joyce Cohen, “Beauty in the Eye of the Renter”, in New York Times:]
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In populations that have “burst” and “path” structures, for example, individuals can never occupy positions in the graph that their ancestors held. Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population. [2018 July 1, John Rennie, “This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving”, in Wired:]
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For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street. [2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:]
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Since Israel’s ground war began in Gaza over a year and a half ago, it has followed a consistent pattern of raiding key militant strongholds and then withdrawing forces, alongside periodic stymieing of food aid. [2025 May 20, Dina Kraft, “Goals of Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive are unclear, even to Israelis”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]