Thwart

Verb

 * 1)  to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate
 * The police thwarted the would-be assassin.
 * Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hinder
 * frustrate, spoil, impede

Derived terms

 * athwart
 * athwartships
 * thwarter

Noun

 * 1)  A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
 * A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
 * 1)  A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
 * The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

Related terms

 * beam

Adverbs for Thwart
effectually; diligently; successfully; temporarily; discouragingly; righteously.

Thesaurus
across, across the grain, annul, athwart, athwartships, baffle, balk, beat, bench, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, bilk, blast, block, brace, brave, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, cast down, catercorner, catercornered, challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, come to nothing, confound, confront, contrariwise, contravene, contrawise, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countermand, counterwork, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossing, crossway, crossways, crosswise, curb, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, defy, destroy, diagonal, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disillusion, disrupt, dissatisfy, elude, flummox, foil, foul up, frustrate, gum up, hinder, impede, invalidate, kittycorner, knock the chocks, let down, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, oblique, obliquely, obstruct, offset, oppose, overthwart, perplex, queer, restrain, ruin, sabotage, scotch, short-circuit, sideways, sidewise, slant, spike, spoil, stonewall, stop, stultify, stump, style, stymie, tantalize, tease, thwartly, thwartways, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, undo, upset, vitiate, void

Etymology
From þvert:, cognates include Danish tvær:, Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃:, German quer:.

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 阻撓, 阻挠
 * Czech:, zkřížit
 * Finnish: pysäyttää, tehdä tyhjäksi
 * French: ,
 * German: durchkreuzen, entgegenwirken, vereiteln
 * Japanese: 阻む


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: мешать исполнению (mešát’ ispolnéniju); препятствовать, воспрепятствовать , расстраивать , расстроить
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Finnish: piitta (fixed), tuhto (removable)
 * French:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: banco (de remeros), bancada