What is "stymieing"

Usage examples of "stymieing".

For a few min-utes, at least, I figured I deserved to be satisfied with saving the girl and stymieing Morrison.

In any case, it was only the Organization’s dominance of that space which prevented the planet from being taken out of the universe by the possessed on the surface, effectively stymieing the First Admiral.

But it proved to be too much for her, a stymieing real­ization that she was soon to die, that her daughter was in mortal peril, and there was not a thing she could do about it.