thwart
thwart Lexical Profile
thwart Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To prevent someone from accomplishing a goal or purpose; to oppose, baffle, or frustrate a plan, effort, or ambition successfully.
"Sudden torrential rain threatened to thwart their plans for an outdoor graduation ceremony."
• noun
A structural crosspiece or seat extending across the width of a canoe, rowboat, or other small open watercraft, providing rigidity to the hull and a place for a rower to sit.
"He rested his oars and shifted his weight onto the wooden thwart in the center of the rowboat."
• adjective
Situated or placed across something else; transverse or oblique (now archaic or literary).
"A single thwart beam supported the weight of the old timber roof."
• Rhymes for thwart
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old Norse 'þvert' (meaning 'across' or 'transverse'), the neuter form of the adjective 'þverr'. The sense evolved from lying across a path physically to obstructing someone's plans or desires.