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Synonyms for thwart
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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. thwartverb

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, spoil, impede

  2. thwartnoun

    to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate

    A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart.

    Synonyms:
    impede, spoil, frustrate

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. thwart

    To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

    See synonyms for QUICKEN.

    Synonyms:
    baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop

    Preposition:
    Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. thwart

    Synonyms:
    oppose, cross, frustrate, oppugn, defeat

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 3 votes

  1. thwart, cross thwartverb

    a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat

    Synonyms:
    cross thwart

  2. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb

    hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

    "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

    Synonyms:
    vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, foil, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplus

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. choke (verb)

    stop growth

    plants can be choked by grass, and grass can be choked off by weeds

    Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. thwartverb

    Synonyms:
    traverse, cross, intersect, lie across

  2. thwartverb

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, hinder, oppose, oppugn, obstruct, contravene, counteract, defeat, disconcert, balk

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. thwartverb

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene

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How to use thwart in a sentence?

  1. Ben Carson:

    What I've been seeing recently is political operatives... once again trying to assert themselves and trying to thwart the will of the people, i find that to be an extraordinarily dangerous place right now. News of the endorsement broke Thursday, and the real estate mogul confirmed Carson's support during a GOP debate hosted by CNN.

  2. New York:

    Once again, the courts have ruled that Donald Trump is not above the law. For years, he tried to stall and thwart our lawful investigation into his financial dealings, but today’s decision sends a clear message that there are consequences for abusing the legal system. We will not be bullied or dissuaded from pursuing justice.

  3. Don Gray:

    We are at the frontlines of ensuring that the protections to the integrity of our elections is first at hand. We are working hard, we are staying focused, we are staying out in front, I spend the majority of my time analyzing and staying in proper positioning to thwart these type of attacks, cyber threats are a reality and we take it seriously. What happened to us was bad, but it could have been a heck of a lot worse.

  4. The SEC:

    To grant a stay now would thwart Congress’s goal of increasing capital formation opportunities.

  5. President Ashraf Ghani:

    In order to provide security for public places and to thwart attacks and threats from the Taliban and other terrorist groups, I am ordering Afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies.


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