亚洲网紅露点

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stymie

[ stahy-mee ]

verb (used with object)

stymied, stymieing.
  1. to hinder, block, or thwart.

    Synonyms: , , ,



noun

  1. a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
  2. Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.

stymie

/ 藞蝉迟补瑟尘瑟 /

verb

  1. to hinder or thwart
  2. golf to impede with a stymie
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. golf (formerly) a situation on the green in which an opponent's ball is blocking the line between the hole and the ball about to be played: an obstructing ball may now be lifted and replaced by a marker
  2. a situation of obstruction
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stymie1

First recorded in 1855鈥60; origin uncertain
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stymie1

C19: of uncertain origin
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Embedding herself with his family for several years, she reveals the ways poor families are stymied in their efforts to get by 鈥 lack of money, lousy landlords, addiction, parental abandonment and more.

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Trump鈥檚 protectionist approach to global trade, however, threatens to stymie the boom that powered Vietnam鈥檚 economic rise for the last decade.

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That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled 鈥 and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.

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But the need is great, complicated by the street drugs some people use for self-medication, and progress is often stymied by multiple forces despite billions of dollars worth of investments in solutions.

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But the new US levies - which come on top of tariffs from Trump's first term - could stymie these plans, not least because they could dampen investor sentiment.

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