 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
thwart
noun: a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat
in a rowboat [syn: {cross thwart}]
verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing
September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {queer}, {spoil},
{scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, adjective [OE. [thorn]wart, [thorn]wert, adjective and adverb,
Icel. [thorn]vert, neut. of [thorn]verr athwart, transverse,
across; akin to AS. [thorn]weorh perverse, transverse, cross,
D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw.
tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tv["a]r cross, unfriendly,
Goth. [thorn]wa['i]rhs angry. Cf. {Queer}.]
1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse;
oblique.
Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. --Milton.
2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, verb (used without an object)
1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]
2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.]
Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with
internal oracles. --Locke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, adverb [See {Thwart}, adjective]
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, preposition
Across; athwart. --Spenser.
{Thwart ships}. See {Athwart ships}, under {Athwart}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, noun (Naut.)
A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other,
or athwart the boat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thwart \Thwart\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Thwarting}.]
1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow
thwarts the air. [Obs.]
Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night. --Milton.
2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to
contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the
inclinations of the other. --South.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "thwart":
across, across the grain, annul, athwart, athwartships, baffle,
balk, beat, bench, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, bilk, blast,
block, brace, brave, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out,
cast down, catercorner, catercornered, challenge, check, checkmate,
circumvent, come to nothing, confound, confront, contrariwise,
contravene, contrawise, counter, counteract, counterbalance,
countermand, counterwork, crisscross, cross, cross-grained,
crossing, crossway, crossways, crosswise, curb, dash, defeat,
defeat expectation, defy, destroy, diagonal, disappoint, discomfit,
disconcert, discountenance, dish, disillusion, disrupt, dissatisfy,
elude, flummox, foil, foul up, frustrate, gum up, hinder, impede,
invalidate, kittycorner, knock the chocks, let down, negate,
negativate, negative, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, oblique,
obliquely, obstruct, offset, oppose, overthwart, perplex, queer,
restrain, ruin, sabotage, scotch, short-circuit, sideways,
sidewise, slant, spike, spoil, stonewall, stop, stultify, stump,
style, stymie, tantalize, tease, thwartly, thwartways, transversal,
transverse, transversely, traverse, undo, upset, vitiate, void
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