stymied

American  

[stahy-meed] / ˈstaɪ mid /

adjective

1. hindered, blocked, or thwarted.

   In this drama he plays a stymied professor of history who has never managed to become department head.

---

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of stymie.

Etymology

Origin of stymied

stymie ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

But Indian cricket was stymied by the ICC regulation that meant Suryavanshi could not yet be picked for the senior team.

From BBC

The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal

Since the White House’s first steps to implement the ban, “capital flow has been stymied, to say the least,” said Invitation Homes CEO Dallas Tanner at a conference earlier this month.

From Barron's

The partial shutdown has stymied operations of the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other DHS agencies.

From Salon

I foresee this trend will only gain steam as U.S. interest rate cuts, foreign investment, deregulation and GDP growth breathe new life into sectors that have been undervalued or even stymied in recent years.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• blocked
• interrupted