thwart - What does it mean?

Verb

(en-verb)

To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.

* South

The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.

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|title= The Mirror and the Lamp |passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

* {{quote-book|year=2006|author=(Edwin Black)|title=Internal Combustion

|chapter=2 citation |passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}

* {{quote-news|year=2011|date=December 10|author=David Ornstein|work=BBC Sport

|title= Arsenal 1-0 Everton |passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}

(obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.