Definitions for thwart

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thwart thwart

Spelling: [thwawrt]

IPA: /θwɔrt/

Thwart is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in thwart (ahrttw).

Definitions for thwart

noun

1. a seat across a boat, especially one used by a rower.
2. a transverse member spreading the gunwales of a canoe or the like.

adjective

1. passing or lying crosswise or across; cross; transverse.
2. perverse; obstinate.
3. adverse; unfavorable.

preposition, adverb

1. across; athwart.

verb (used with object)

1. to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
2. to frustrate or baffle (a plan, purpose, etc.).
3. Archaic. to cross. to extend across.

Origin of thwart

1200-50; Middle English thwert (adv.) Old Norse thvert across, neuter of thverr transverse; cognate with Old English thweorh crooked, cross, Gothic thwairhs cross, angry

Examples for thwart

Did Johnnie Cochran, the lawyer who “got him off,” as the public is prone to say, serve justice or thwart it?

The vigilance of Sam had detected him, in time to thwart his purpose.

All Facebook will see is cyphertext—the mathematical gibberish computers generate to thwart spying eyes.

He wa'n't on the thwart, but down in a heap on the cockpit floor.

He scrambled to the thwart, pushed her aside and seized the oars.

If it please you to take a leap into nothing it were pity to thwart you.

An independent Paris publishing house, Les Arènes, is said to have had a skeleton staff working on the project to thwart leaks.

“They made every effort they could to thwart the study at every turn,” she says.

Sadly for the NRA, we are in the Information Age, and the truth is starting to regularly get past their efforts to thwart it.

To do what the superior power requires of him, he must thwart his inclinations.