Definitions for thwarts

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thwarts thwart

Spelling: [thwawrt]

IPA: /θwɔrt/

Thwarts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in thwarts (ahrsttw).

Definitions for thwarts

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 thwarts

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 thwarts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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