Dictionary Entry
thwart
thwart is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, preposition, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
- 2adjective
Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
- 3adjective
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
- 4preposition
Across; athwart.
- 5noun
A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
- 6transitive verb
To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
- 7transitive verb
To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
- 8intransitive verb
To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
- 9intransitive verb
Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
- 10noun
a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- 11verb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
"foil your opponent"
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