short-circuit - hamper the progress of; impede; "short-circuit warm feelings"
ruin - destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"
3.
HamperIn 20th-century and later architecture, a visually distinct topmost storey or storeys.Harling(Scots and Northern Irish; lit. hurling): Wet dash, i.e.
The representation of some of the Arabic and Spanish words into English have been hampered by the composing software used.
Etymology ...
This entrance was flanked by a masked return of the wall (C), while palisades (P) still further hampered the assailant in his passage across the "lists" to the foot of the gate towers.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Timber, Storey, Splayed
  
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