Thwart has 7 different meanings across 3 categories:
Noun
· Verb
· Prep
1
a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
2
A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
1
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
"foil your opponent"
2
To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
1
Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
1
Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
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