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short-circuitingverbpresent participle of short-circuit to create difficulty for the work or activity offor decades the maverick filmmaker was short-circuited by a chronic lack of funds clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting |