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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwart \Thwart\, a. [OE. [thorn]wart, [thorn]wert, a. and adv., 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.]
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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
--Milton. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Thwart \Thwart\, v. i.
To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]
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Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.]
Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles.
--Locke.
Thwart \Thwart\, adv. [See Thwart, a.]
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Thwart \Thwart\, prep.
Across; athwart.
--Spenser.
Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.
Thwart \Thwart\, n. (Naut.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwarting.]
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"oppose, hinder," mid-13c., from thwart (adv.). Related: Thwarted; thwarting.\n
c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, probably Old Norse þvert "across," originally neuter of thverr (adj.) "transverse, across," cognate with Old English þweorh "transverse, perverse, angry, cross," from Proto-Germanic *thwerh- "twisted, oblique" (cognates: Middle Dutch dwers, Dutch dwars "cross-grained, contrary," Old High German twerh, German quer, Gothic þwairhs "angry"), altered (by influence of *thwer- "to turn") from *therkh-, from PIE *terkw- "to twist" (cognates: Latin torquere "to twist," Sanskrit tarkuh "spindle," Old Church Slavonic traku "band, girdle," Old High German drahsil "turner," German drechseln "to turn on a lathe"), possibly a variant of *twerk- "to cut." From mid-13c. as an adjective.
Wiktionary
1 Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. 2 (context figurative English) Perverse; crossgrained. adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart. n. 1 (context nautical English) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. 2 (context nautical English) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. v
(context transitive English) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
WordNet
n. a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat [syn: cross thwart]
v. 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]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "thwart".
No one could doubt that Philip Augustus would abet his vassal, the Countess of Poitou, in dispositions so well calculated to thwart the Angevin.
Pakington, in adopting their policy, and thwarting a whig plenipotentiary.
Though he had been thwarted in Alcazar, the information he had gained was worth the loss.
And smacked into a hard body, as the Argon deftly thwarted her attempt by shifting himself into her path.
Sitting on a thwart up near the mast, Sinclair, the young soldier, had the baler to his head.
Sinclair half rose from his thwart, clawed fingers reaching for the baler, but Nicolson easily pushed him away, and he sank back heavily on his seat, bent forward, cradled his face in his hands and shook his head slowly from side to side.
Having been thwarted in their efforts to silence the Baptist, they would naturally turn on the One whose way he had pointed.
If she removed herself, temporarily, from her home she could thwart Broc and Dogface.
It was for her, Capella, whose star was aligned on the Rollright Stones, to swear allegiance to the thwarted and frustrated king.
We clung to the thwarts in silence as Chubby took us home on a wild ride, and it was only when we entered the quieter waters of the lagoon that we could continue the discussion.
When we climbed over the side of the whaleboat Chubby had the battery switchbox beside him on the thwart and it was wired up.
Chubby cut the motors and we coasted in under the lee of the reef, while Chubby scrambled back to where I crouched on the thwart.
The suppers I had given at my house had set me perfectly at liberty, and the superintendent could do nothing to thwart our love, though he was informed of it, so well are the spies of Turin organized.
Rightly, then, should France worship, and deafen the disaccord Of those who dare withstand an irresistible sword To thwart his predestined subjection of Europe.
The pharaohs, of course, can be encapsuled in a cartouche, and even a mage much less puissant than myself can thwart any number of zombies.