thwart
Meaning of thwart
verb
- prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
he never did anything to thwart his father
he was thwarted in his desire to punish Uncle Fred
noun
a structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat.
preposition- from one side to another side of (an area); across.
a pink-tinged cloud spread thwart the shore
adverb
from one side to another side of an area.
Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert ‘perverse, obstinate, adverse’, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr ‘transverse’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
Information about thwart
- The plural form of thwart is: thwarts.
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Hyphenation of thwart
thwart
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- thwart is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
thwart synonyms
Meaning queer:
queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Translation of thwart
- Spanish: evitar, anular, estropear, abortar, dificultar, impedir, frustrar, malograr
- Italian: impedire, frustrare, ostacolare
- German: durchkreuzen, vereiteln, unterlaufen
- French: contrecarrer, contrarier
- Portuguese: frustrar, contrariar
Words that rhyme with thwart
wart, thrawart, D'ewart, Dewart, Ewart, Hewart, Stewart, blewart, medaewart, moudiewart, mowdiewart, stewart, tewart, athwart, overthwart, moudiwart, mowdiwart, coolwart, stalwart, overwart, Swart, swart, worrywart, Zwart
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