Difference between Stymie and Embarrass

STYMIE vs EMBARRASS: NOUN

A thwarting and distressing situation
An obstacle or obstruction.
A situation in golf in which an opponent's ball obstructs the line of play of one's own ball on the putting green.
In golf-playing, a position in which a player has to putt for the hole with his opponent's ball directly in the line of his approach.
See stimy.
A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green.
A situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole

To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
To humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert.
To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede.
To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties.
To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to make (a person) unpleasantly self-conscious; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert.
To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct
To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs.

The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.
To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.

Cause to feel self-conscious
Cause to be embarrassed
Embarrass, Puzzle, Perplex. To embarrass, literally, is to bar one's way, to impede one's progress in a particular direction, to hamper one's actions; hence, to make it difficult for one to know what is best to be done; also, to confuse or disconcert one so that one has not for a time one's usual judgment or presence of mind. To puzzle, literally, is to pose or give a hard question to, to put into a state of uncertainty where decision is difficult or impossible; it applies equally to opinion and to conduct. To perplex, literally, is to inclose, as in the meshes of a net, to entangle one's judgment so that one is at a loss what to think or how to act. Embarrass expresses most of uncomfortable feeling and mental confusion.
Synonyms To hinder, impede, obstruct, harass, distress, clog, hamper.
To perplex mentally; confuse the thoughts or perceptions of; discompose; disconcert; abash: as, an abrupt address may embarrass a young lady.
To hamper or impede as with entanglements; encumber; render intricate or difficult; beset with difficulties; confuse or perplex, as conflicting circumstances, pecuniary complications, etc.: as, public affairs are embarrassed; want of order tends to embarrass business; the merchant is embarrassed by the unfavorable state of the market, or by his liabilities.

Counteract, Inhibit, Hobble, Impede, Scuttle, Hamper, Frustrate, Derail, Thwart, Stymy, Blockade, Block, Embarrass, Obstruct, Hinder

Interfere, Disturb, Bother, Disrupt, Confuse, Annoy, Frustrate, Humiliate, Stymy, Abash, Blockade, Block, Hinder, Stymie, Obstruct

Nullify, Counteract, Inhibit, Hobble, Impede, Scuttle, Hamper, Frustrate, Derail, Thwart, Blockade, Block, Embarrass, Obstruct, Hinder

Impede, Disgrace, Shame, Disturb, Disrupt, Confuse, Annoy, Frustrate, Humiliate, Abash, Blockade, Block, Hinder, Stymie, Obstruct

Stymie, a website that allows students to anonymously report harm.
Premature correctness, often motivated by efficiency, can stymie that production.
LAS VEGAS: Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone.
Eastern Bloc countries and, in turn, stymie communist expansion.
Thus, civil RICO lawsuits, if anything, stymie deliberative democracy.
Not knowing the governmental sources could stymie them.
And your job is to not stymie it.
Guest Eric Schmitt on attempting to stymie St.
State Bans On Hydraulic Fracturing Stymie American Prosperit.
He feared internal resistance might stymie the transition.

What if they embarrass me in some way?
Phillips wants to embarrass the Church into submission.
Be very careful not to embarrass the giver.
BEFORE you embarrass yourself to friends and family.
Exhibit C was being used to embarrass defendants.
You want to call them and embarrass me.
Due to this effect, not embarrass with fans.
Did you have to embarrass me like that?
Did Laci ever embarrass him in social situations?
It is forbidden for a person to embarrass a fellow Jew, and even more to embarrass a fellow Jew in public.