STYMIED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

stymied

verb

past tense of stymie

as in hampered

to create difficulty for the work or activity of the raging blizzard stymied the rescuers' attempts to find the stranded mountain climbers

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Recent Examples of stymied Neel Sannappa, chair of the California Democratic Party’s progressive caucus, said Raman was stymied by getting into the race late and having only a few months to campaign. —

National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026 Senior first baseman Ahlivia East tallied a double and a single and senior outfielder Brynn Broughton added an RBI double, but Oswego was stymied by senior pitcher Shae Johnson, who took the loss for Mundelein against the Panthers two years ago in the third-place game. —

Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026 The slapstick titles—Crackned Horsez, To of Them, Ape Island, all 1972—further stymied any straightforwardly polemical takeaway. —

Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026 The Thunder’s half-court offense was stymied by Wembanyama standing on the strong side any time SGA tried to iso, and Oklahoma City didn’t have enough juice away from the play to burn it. —

John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Rough road for solar in Ohio A mixture of a state law passed in 2021 that favors local opposition over renewable energy development and a receptive regulatory panel on the OPSB has repeatedly stymied renewable developers in Ohio. —

CBS News, 31 May 2026 The Christian war council felt stymied. —

Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026 Jorie’s example has already begun to have an effect, even for children considerably older than her for whom development was stymied by similar genetic deletions. —

Casey Ross, STAT, 19 May 2026 There’s also the multi-state litigation against Nexstar-Tegna, which has stymied the integration of the two local TV station groups as the court reviews the claims that the tie-up is anticompetitive. —

Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 May 2026

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In roughly half of the cases, dead foundation species hampered the ability of their living counterparts to reestablish, grow and survive after extreme events.

— John Kominoski, The Conversation, 10 June 2026
Trump has often alleged rampant voter fraud that has hampered Republicans’ success, and his base has largely accepted these sentiments to be true, despite no evidence backing up his accusations.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Daily News, 9 June 2026