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Word entry · 6 letters

thwart

Best crossword clue

"Prevent success"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /θwɔːt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ahrttwStarts with TEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2H3W4A5R6T

Definitions

  1. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

Word origin

From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”).

Used in a sentence

  • […] and it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
  • Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.
  • The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

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