thwart
/θwɔɹt/ verb C2- To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent. · Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.· The police thwarted the would-be assassin.
Plural thwart · He/she/it thwarts · Past thwarted · Past participle thwarted · -ing form thwarting
Verb forms
- Base form
- thwart
- He/she/it
- thwarts
- Past
- thwarted
- Past participle
- thwarted
- -ing form
- thwarting
From the library
You’ve thwarted destiny enough.
It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.
A character might devise an elaborate scheme to attain wealth or prestige, only to be thwarted by a trivial misunderstanding.
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