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Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
Answer for the clue "Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take ", 8 letters:
thwarter
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take [syn: obstructionist , obstructor , obstructer , resister ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwarter \Thwart"er\, n. (Far.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person or thing that thwarts.
Usage examples of thwarter.
Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, thwarter of the Black Mass, nemesis of the Redeemers, he who has returned from the dead and has been worshipped by some as a mes-siah.
Supersleuth, mysterious thwarter of crime, The Shadow was traveling with Ralph Weston and Marinez Corlaza on their way to investigate the affairs of Sigby Rund.
There was a cook shop next to the platform and he ate his breakfast amid a bustle of young Thwarters going to work in the village food fields in a valley lower down.
He paid for his meal with a handful of local coins, then herded his sample cases out of the shop, ignoring the laughter that followed him as the Thwarters noted for the first time the hippity-hoppity progress of the cases on their dozens of short skinny legs and stubby feet.
By noon he'd finished two-thirds of the circuit, had tagged a dozen Thwarters and was near perishing of hunger.