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Stymie vs Evoke - What's the difference?

stymie | evoke |

As verbs the difference between stymie and evoke

is that stymie is to thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck while evoke is to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc) in someone's mind or imagination.

As a noun stymie

is an obstacle or obstruction.

stymie

English

Alternative forms

* stimy, stymy

Noun

(en noun)
  • An obstacle or obstruction.
  • (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green.

    • Verb

    (d)
  • To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
    • They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 21, author=Joyce Cohen, title=Beauty in the Eye of the Renter, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me. }}

    evoke

    English

    Verb

  • To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
    • Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
    Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
    The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * evocate