Thwart

Definition: Thwart

Thwart

Noun

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

Verb

1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent".

2. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thwart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Thwart \Thwart\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Thwarted; Thwarting.]. (references)

Transportation

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Synonyms: Thwart

Crossing

Adverb: cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade; crosswise.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Opposition

Be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork, countermine; thwart, overthwart; work against, undermine.

Crosswords: Thwart

Books

• Be Not Like Anyone Else Not Like Everyone Else: How to Thwart the Corrosive Power of Organizational Aging (reference)

• Masks of Nyarlathotep: Adventures to Thwart the Dark God (reference)

• White House efforts to thwart congressional investigations of pre-war Iraq policy : the case of the Rostow Gang : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, M (reference)

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Economic History

Hong Kong

The government maintains its August 1998 US$15 billion intervention in the stock, futures, and currency market was a one-off event designed to thwart "market manipulators". (references)

Hong Kong

As noted earlier, the government maintains its August 1999 US$15 billion intervention in the stock, futures, and currency markets to thwart " manipulators" was a one-off event. (references)

Switzerland

Additionally, an "opt out" clause is available for firms which do not want to be forcibly taken over by a hostile bidder, but such opt outs must be approved by a super-majority of shareholders and well in advance of any takeover attempt (i.e., not to thwart such an attempt which has already been launched). (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) acts to thwart noncompetitive pricing by state-run monopolies. (references)

Burma

Since the 1990's, the junta systematically has violated human rights in the country to suppress the prodemocracy movement, including the NLD, and to thwart repeated efforts by the representatives elected in 1990 to convene. (references)

BOLIVIA

The Labor Code requires prior governmental authorization to establish a union, permits only one union per enterprise, and allows the Government of Bolivia to dissolve unions, through this power to thwart union activities has not been known to have been used in recent years. (references)

Worker Rights

Italy

Many of these factories, which face threats of infiltration or coercion by Chinese organized crime, are equipped with escape tunnels to thwart labor inspections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "thwart": cross thwart ♦ Thwart ships. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bemoeilik (hamper, hinder). (various references)

Albanian

plot me piper, ndenjëse për rremtarin. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقعد المجذف, ‏موروب (awry, biased), ‏مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, titled), ‏تصدي, ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

седалка в лодка за гребеца, кос (bevel, blackbird, oblique, ousel, ouzel, sidelong, sideward, sideways, skew, slantways, slantwise, splay, transversal, transverse), напречен (cross, transversal, transverse). (various references)

Chinese 

阻橈 (obstruct), 挫敗 (defeat, foil), 反对 (Against, Dissenting, Objected, Objecting, Objection, Oppose, opposed, opposing, Opposition, thwarted, thwarting). (various references)

Czech

zmařit (baffle, crush, destroy, ditch, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, upset), zkřížit (cross, traverse), sedadlo veslaře, překazit (baffle, confound, queer, set back, upset). (various references)

Danish

tofte (thwarts), rorbænk, ratbænk. (various references)

Dutch

roeidoft, doft, bemoeilijken (hamper), bemoeilýken (hamper, hinder). (various references)

Esperanto

malfaciligi (hamper, hinder). (various references)

Farsi 

مخالفت کردن با (Disagree, Resist), کج (Askance, Askew, Awry, Crank, Crump, Devious, Gauche, Indirect, Lopsided, Sidelong, Sinister, Slant, Snafu, Wry), حاءل کردن , عقیم گذاردن , خنثی کردن (Annul, Counteract, Counterbalance, Discomfit, Negate, Negation, Neuter, Neutralize, Offset, Stultify, Undo), انسداداریب , بی نتیجه گذاردن . (various references)

Finnish

tuhto (seat), tehdä tyhjäksi (cross, foil), soututuhto, soututeljo, soutupenkki. (various references)

French

banc de nage. (various references)

German

vereiteln (blight, foil, frustrate, hamstring, hamstringed, hamstrung, mock, prevent, thwarted, to blight, to defeat, to foil, to thwart, upset), ruderbank (rowing seat), hintertreiben (block, foil), ducht (thwarts). (various references)

Greek 

εμποδίζω (bar, block, clog, cross, cumber, deter, embarrass, encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent, stunt, stymie, trammel, trig). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� �'�" ל- (militate, not to hold with), ל�"כשיל (cause failure, flunk, impede, lead astray, make err, stump, trip, trip up), לסכל (baffle, balk, baulk, circumvent, foil, frustrate, make foolish, stultify), אלכסו� י (diagonal, oblique, slanted, slantwise). (various references)

Hungarian

rézsút (aslope, athwart, on the bias), keresztben (across, athwart, crossways, thwart-ship, traverse), rézsútosan (aslope, obliquely, on the skew, on the slant, slantwise), rézsútos (beveled, bevelled, inclined, oblique, skew, transverse), kereszttartó (spreader), keresztirányú (abeam, cross), keresztező (cross, thwart-ship), keresztben húzódó (thwart-ship), keresztben álló (cross, thwart-ship), középső csónakülés, haránt irányú, haránt (athwart, cross, crosswise, thwart-ship), evezőspad (bank), ülés (bottomless, lodge, lodge meeting, séance, seance, seat, session, sitting). (various references)

Indonesian

menyia-nyiakan, menghalangi (block, counteract, deter, obstruct). (various references)

Italian

rendere difficile (hamper, hinder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

阻む (to check, to hinder, to keep someone from doing, to obstruct, to oppose, to prevent, to stop, to thwart). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はばむ (to check, to hinder, to keep someone from doing, to obstruct, to oppose, to prevent, to stop, to thwart). (various references)

Manx

thowt, tessen (athwart, cross, diagonal, transversal, transverse), tarmestey (ban, block, blocking, check, checkmate; stonewaller; discouragement, chip in, cross, cross annoy, debar, encroachment, foil, frustrate, frustration, interdict, interdiction, interference, proscribe, proscription, taboo), crossey (blacklist, cross, crucifixion, crucify, interdiction, reel, veto), beck (beck, bench, bench in boat). (various references)

Pig Latin

artthway.(various references)

Portuguese

opor-se a (antagonize, breast, dislike, frustrate, gainsay, oppose, withstand), intrometer-se (butt in, cut in, horn in, interfere, intermeddle, intervene, meddle, mess with, monkey, nose, obtrude, obtrude oneself, poke, tamper, tamper with), impedir (arrest, avert, balk, block, clash, clog, cramp, cumber, dam, debar, delay, detain, embarrass, estop, fetter, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hinder, hobble, impede, intercept, interfere, let, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put a stop, resist, restrain, set back, shackle, stop, trammel, withhold), frustrar (balk, confound, disappoint, discomfit, elude, foil, frustrate, mar, resist), dificultar (complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, impede, interfere, stickle), contrariar (antagonize, balk, contradict, counteract, counterwork, displeasure, frustrate, nark, oppose, ruffle, spite, tease, upset), bancada (tier of benchs, workbench), baldar (foil, waste). (various references)

Romanian

zãdãrnici (annihilate, cripple, defeat, destroy, discomfit, disturb, foil, frustrate, pip), dejuca (baffle, balk, baulk, counterwork, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, foil, frustrate, shatter), contracara (balk, baulk, counter, counteract, countervail, counterwork, cross). (various references)

Russian 

расстраивать (baffle, blow up, defeat, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, shatter, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset), косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, walleyed), банка на гребной шлюпке, поперечный (cross, crosscut, diametral, transversal, transverse, traverse). (various references)

Scottish

cas (abrupt, curled, fire, foot, gnash the teeth, haft : casan, leg, oppose, passionate, paw, rash, shaft, steep, to close upon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veslačka klupa, suprotstaviti se (resist, set one's face against), preprečiti (cumber, get in the way, obstruct), poprečan (cross, transversal, transverse, traverse), osujetiti (foil, frustrate, mar, prevent, queer, set back), jogunast (balky, baulky, capricious, difficult, obstinate, refractory). (various references)

Spanish

dificultar (hamper, hinder, obstruct). (various references)

Swedish

toft, omintetgöra (cripple, defeat, disconcert, foil, frustrate, scotch, shatter, sink, torpedo, undo). (various references)

Thai

ที่นั่งตามขวางลำเรือ, ซึ่งวางขวางอยู่, ขั�"ขวาง (balk, bar, deter, forbid, hinder, rule out, stymie, stymy, suffocate). (various references)

Turkish

yaptırmamak, sandalın oturak tahtası, engel olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, scotch, shackle), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), aykırı (anomalous, anti-, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, contradictious, contradictory, counter, crossways, crosswise, gainst, heterodox, impolitic, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, transverse), önlemek (arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, stay, suppress, ward, ward off), çapraz (across, bias, cornerwise, crisscross, cross, crossways, crosswise, decussate, diagonal, groined, lattice, slantways, slantwise, transversal, transverse, traverse). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти врозріз (contravene), сперечатися (altercate, argue, bandy, contend, contest, dispute, jangle, squabble, wrangle), незговірливий (cross-grained, difficile, intractable), поперечний (cross, diametral, diametric, transversal, transverse), перечити (oppugn), перетинатися (cross, intercross, interject, intersect). (various references)

Welsh

siomi (baffle, balk, belie, deceive, disappoint), seithugio (balk, frustrate). (various references)

traverser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thwart": thwarted, thwarter, thwarters, thwarting, thwartly, thwarts, thwartwise. (additional references)

Words ending with "thwart": athwart. (additional references)

Words containing "thwart": athwartship, athwartships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thwart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chawarta, thart, thawart, thawt, thoar, thrwart, th'want, thward, thwarrt, th'work, twar, t'war, twart, twert. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thraw, wrath.

-2 letters: hart, rath, tahr, tart, that, thaw, wart, watt, what.

-3 letters: art, att, hat, haw, rah, rat, raw, tar, tat, taw, twa, war, wat, wha.

-4 letters: ah, ar, at, aw, ha, ta.

+1 letter: athwart, thwarts.

+2 letters: strawhat, thrawart, thwarted, thwarter, thwartly, watthour.

+3 letters: bathwater, stalworth, thwarters, thwarting, watthours, wrathiest.

+4 letters: antigrowth, bathwaters, shirtwaist, stalworths, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweetheart, thwartwise, watchtower, watertight, witchcraft, wristwatch.

+5 letters: athwartship, handwritten, shirtwaists, straightway, sweatshirts, sweethearts, thankworthy, therewithal, thitherward, watchtowers, waterthrush, weathercast, whitethroat, witchcrafts.