Crossword clues for thwarting
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
n. An instance of blocking or obstructing. vb. (present participle of thwart English)
WordNet
adj. preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative]
n. an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: frustration, foiling]
Usage examples of "thwarting".
He, like Weston and Cardona, had the thwarting of The Black Falcon as his objective!
Then, when I was older, and upon the date that was foretold, the third of March, two thousand, two hundred and twenty, I would enter the time machine and be dispatched back here to do my thwarting of the witches and save the world.
Promised One, who would travel from the future, do the thwarting and save mankind.
Had he paused here to remove his hat and coat, he would again have had a chance of thwarting impending doom.
His thwarting power hidden from the knowledge of the Living Joss, the master of darkness was again preparing for the next stroke of Kwa!
In both town and country violent anger was then directed at those supposed to be thwarting his will: municipal officials who were said to have hoarded grain and flour to drive the price up, brigands and aristocrats who to starve the people had cut grain while it stood ripening in the fields.
The plush carpeting sank underfoot, thwarting his attempts to stomp noisily.
Baran and his fellows sent stone against them, thwarting the attempts.
There is an exaggeration in your sorrow These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple Time, the irresistible healer Trust not in kings Violent passion had changed to mere friendship Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous When one has seen him, everything is excusable When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words Would you like to be a cardinal?
He was at a starting-point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.