throw monkey wrench in

Strongest matches

• disappoint
• stall

Strong matches

• baffle
• bar
• beat
• check
• circumvent
• counteract
• cramp
• dash
• defeat
• disconcert
• foil
• forestall
• frustrate
• hinder
• obstruct
• prevent
• ruin
• stop

Weak matches

• cramp one's style
• throw a curve
• upset the apple cart

Strongest matches

• exhaust
• immobilize
• knock out
• ruin
• shatter
• undermine
• wreck

Strong matches

• attenuate
• batter
• blunt
• disarm
• disenable
• disqualify
• enervate
• enfeeble
• hamstring
• invalidate
• kibosh
• mar
• muzzle
• pinion
• prostrate
• sabotage
• sap
• spoil
• total
• unbrace
• unfit

Weak matches

• hock
• hogtie
• put out of action
• render incapable
• unstrengthen

Strong matches

• bind
• chain
• check
• clog
• confine
• cuff
• curb
• encumber
• hamper
• hamstring
• handcuff
• hinder
• hobble
• hog-tie
• leash
• manacle
• repress
• restrain
• restrict
• shackle
• trammel

Weak matches

• drag feet
• hang up
• hold captive
• put straitjacket on

Strongest matches

• counter
• curb
• elude
• frustrate
• hinder
• nullify
• prevent
• thwart

Strong matches

• baffle
• balk
• beat
• bilk
• bollix
• buffalo
• check
• checkmate
• crab
• cramp
• crimp
• dash
• defeat
• disappoint
• disconcert
• ditch
• dodge
• duck
• faze
• juke
• outwit
• rattle
• restrain
• shake
• skip
• stop
• stymie

Weak matches

• foul up
• get around
• give the runaround
• give the slip
• hang up
• run circles around
• run rings around
• shake off
• shuffle off
• upset the apple cart

Strongest matches

• cripple
• debilitate
• disable
• disarm
• impair
• incapacitate
• mangle
• mutilate
• paralyze
• shatter

Strong matches

• action
• attenuate
• batter
• blunt
• damage
• disenable
• disqualify
• enervate
• enfeeble
• exhaust
• hamstring
• harm
• hock
• hurt
• invalidate
• kibosh
• maim
• mar
• muzzle
• pinion
• prostrate
• ruin
• sabotage
• sap
• spoil
• total
• unbrace
• undermine
• unfit
• weaken
• wreck

Weak matches

• hogtie
• knock out
• put out of action
• render incapable
• shoot down
• take out
• unstrengthen