Crossword clues for thwarted
thwarted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: thwart)
WordNet
adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated]
Usage examples of "thwarted".
That was the laugh of the stern master who had thwarted the hand of doom!
To have rescue come so close only to be thwarted because he could not make his poor, savage friends understand precisely what he wanted of them was most irritating, but he could not find it in his heart to place blame upon them.
What hideous trials might they not have undergone during those seven awful days that nature had thwarted him in his endeavours to locate them?
Tarzan, not to be thwarted in any such manner as this, pursued them, and after a brief chase caught up with a young warrior.
Jane, and yet in her heart she knew that that was exactly what the great scoundrel would do in revenge for his having been thwarted by the Swede.
If she had been in doubt before the last shred of that doubt was wiped away as she witnessed the terrible anger of the Russian as he looked upon the dead face of the baby and realized that at the last moment his dearest wish for vengeance had been thwarted by a higher power.
The sailor, having made sure that Paulvitch had departed, returned to the forecastle, where he hid away his booty and turned into his bunk, while in the cabin that had belonged to the Russian there ticked on and on through the silences of the night the little mechanism in the small black box which held for the unconscious sleepers upon the ill-starred Kincaid the coming vengeance of the thwarted Russian.
Over sandwiches and coffee, these thwarted stock manipulators were discussing the events at the home of Barton Schofield.
But before The Shadow pressed the trigger, the last Chinaman thwarted Joe Cardona.
He flattened, back upward, safely on the ledge, while the thwarted wind whined its disappointment above him.
Presumably Clarence House, from where - just after her thwarted suitor had left - Princess Margaret on October 31, 1955 issued a statement that she did not intend to marry Peter Townsend.
Cassie was thwarted by the lights, the phone, and her middle child Ethan, who had croup and wanted nothing more than to be held by his mother.
Their attacks, in the past, had been thwarted by the steady defenders, as well as magical aid from an unknown source.
The young maiden, who was urged to this tremendous deed by an impulse which overpowered its horror, was evidently a most gentle and amiable being, a creature formed to adorn and be admired, and thus violently thwarted from her nature by the necessity of circumstance and opinion.
Back to the point: at the analogy of Level 1, the eagle is thwarted but there is not much ability.