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    thwart
    [THwôrt]
    verb
    thwart (verb) · thwarts (third person present) · thwarted (past tense) · thwarted (past participle) · thwarting (present participle)
    1. prevent (someone) from accomplishing something:
      "he never did anything to thwart his father" · "he was thwarted in his desire to punish Uncle Fred"
      • oppose (a plan, attempt, or ambition) successfully:
        "the government had been able to thwart all attempts by opposition leaders to form new parties"
    noun
    thwart (noun) · thwarts (plural noun)
    1. a structural crosspiece sometimes forming a seat for a rower in a boat.
    preposition
    archaic
    literary
    1. from one side to another side of (an area); across:
      "a pink-tinged cloud spread thwart the shore"
    adverb
    archaic
    literary
    thwart (adverb)
    1. from one side to another side of an area.
    Origin
    Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert ‘perverse, obstinate, adverse’, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr ‘transverse’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
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