2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Thwarting}.]
1. To move across or counter to to cross; as an arrow
thwarts the air. [Obs.]
Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the
night. --Milton.
2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to to
contravene; hence to frustrate or defeat.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me --Shak.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the
inclinations of the other --South.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
thwarted
adj : disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and
thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture
Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking
teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: {defeated},
{disappointed}, {discomfited}, {foiled}, {frustrated}]
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