Thwart
[θwɔːt] or [θwɔrt]
Definition
(noun.) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat.
(verb.) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; 'What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge'; 'foil your opponent'.
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Definition
(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Traverse, cross, intersect, lie across.[2]. Frustrate, hinder, oppose, oppugn, obstruct, contravene, counteract, defeat, disconcert, balk.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Oppose, cross, frustrate, oppugn, defeat,[See ABODE_and_PROP]
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Definition
adj. cross: being crosswise.—v.t. to cross: to oppose; to defeat.—n. the bench for rowers placed athwart the boat.—advs. Thwart; Thwar′tedly.—n. Thwar′ter.—adj. Thwar′ting perverse.—advs. Thwar′tingly perversely; Thwart′ly; Thwart′ships across the ship.
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Examples
- But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is dangerous, explosively dangerous, to thwart them for any length of time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You mean that she will be killed merely to thwart me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For in the last analysis the practical and the reasonable are little idols of clay that thwart our efforts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I will neither help you nor thwart you; so you can do as you please, but I don't think you'll succeed in your schemes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Tammany is not a satanic instrument of deception, cleverly devised to thwart the will of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am thwarted in every thing material. Jane Austen. Emma.
- When we are thwarted we begin to ask why. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And so without waiting to be again discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep incline and pushed open the doorway at its end. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I told him in French that all we wanted was to walk over his thwarts and step ashore, and asked him what he went away out there for. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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