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stymie

/stahy-mee/US // ˈstaɪ mi //UK // (ˈstaɪmɪ) //

风格,风格化,风格化的,风格派

Related Words

obstruct阻挠,阻挡,阻碍,妨碍thwart阻挠,阻挠了,阻碍,阻止stonewall石墙,石头墙,石壁,石牆foil箔,箔片,箔纸,挫折stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开impede阻挡,阻阻,阻挡了,牵制crimp卷曲,压接,卷边,卷绕choke off窒息,掐断,掐死,窒息而死mystify神秘化,神化,使人感到神秘的是,使人迷惑的是prevent防止,预防,阻止,避免cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩stump树桩,残端,残枝败叶,残枝nonplus非加,非加号,不加,非加码defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折pigeonhole鸽子洞,鸽子笼,鸽子窝,阁楼confound困惑,混淆,混淆视听corner角落,转角,拐角处,转角处crab螃蟹,蟹肉,蟹类,蟹shelve搁置,搁浅,搁架,搁置的balk逡巡不前,巴尔克,逡巡,巴尔干

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sty·mied, sty·mie·ing.

    • : to hinder, block, or thwart.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
    • : Golf. an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbfrustrate, hinder
Forms: stymied, stymies
Synonyms
choke off窒息,掐断,掐死,窒息而死crimp卷曲,压接,卷边,卷绕foil箔,箔片,箔纸,挫折impede阻挡,阻阻,阻挡了,牵制obstruct阻挠,阻挡,阻碍,妨碍stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开stonewall石墙,石头墙,石壁,石牆thwart阻挠,阻挠了,阻碍,阻止balk逡巡不前,巴尔克,逡巡,巴尔干block块,阻止,阻挡,块状confound困惑,混淆,混淆视听corner角落,转角,拐角处,转角处crab螃蟹,蟹肉,蟹类,蟹cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折mystify神秘化,神化,使人感到神秘的是,使人迷惑的是nonplus非加,非加号,不加,非加码pigeonhole鸽子洞,鸽子笼,鸽子窝,阁楼prevent防止,预防,阻止,避免puzzle谜题,难题,拼图,谜团shelve搁置,搁浅,搁架,搁置的snooker斯诺克,斯诺克球,斯诺克比赛,斯诺克运动stump树桩,残端,残枝败叶,残枝cramp one's style碍手碍脚,束手无策,束手就擒,碍手碍脚的cut off截断,切断,斩断,断dead-end死胡同,死角,死巷,死胡胡give the run around兜圈子,绕弯子,搪塞过去,绕弯子的人hang fire挂火,绞刑,挂机,绞杀hang up挂断电话,挂断,挂断电源,挂掉电话hold off抵制,搁置,拖住,隐瞒hold up举起,抬起,举出,抬头put on back burner放在后面,束之高阁,搁浅,搁置put on hold搁置,搁置的,放置,暂缓执行throw a monkey wrench into牵一发而动全身,牵一发动全身,牵动人心

Examples

  • Conflation of the words “intervention” and “invasion” needlessly stymie debate.

  • Both America's and Iran's regional clients are now openly attempting to stymie the process of rapprochement.

  • From 2009 through 2012, Capitol Hill Republicans were highly imaginative in their efforts to stymie President Obama.

  • Corporations figure out our ‘bliss spots,’ manipulate the USDA, and stymie anyone who opposes them.

  • And as many of the wealthy women are well known, their public persona can stymie the process.

  • Well, the first thing to be done is to get rid of Loudon's stymie with the authorities.

  • He wished frantically that he could have figured out a way to stymie the chase, but starships were not built to be sabotaged.

  • He may dodge a stymie or circumvent an inconvenient piece of the green over which, without the cut, the ball would have to travel.

  • The common method of playing a stymie is by pitching your ball over that of your opponent, but this is not always possible.

  • The object is to knock the stymie right away over the hole, and to follow through with your own and drop in.

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