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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thwart /θwɔːt/
▶verb prevent from succeeding in or accomplishing something. ▶noun a structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat. ▶preposition & adverb archaic or literary from one side to another side of; across.
– origin ME thwerte, from thwert ‘perverse, obstinate, adverse’, from ON thvert, neut. of thverr ‘transverse’.
'thwart' also found in these Oxford entries:
antiterrorism
- athwart
- baulk
- counter-espionage
- counterplot
- counterterrorism
- get
- hamstring
- mocker
- nobble
- scupper
- spike
- traverse
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