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Definition

to prevent something

Much more rarely, thwart can reference a seat of a rowboat.

You've thwarted destiny enough.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

And the only real thing he ever feels is annoyance when he's thwarted.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Thus thwarted, the stallion turned his wrath on Tom.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
She had been reading too fast because it was past the little girls' bedtime and now she was thwarted by a fit of hiccups.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
He should have thwarted Uriel and avoided being seen by the other angels.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
In it was a hunger of thwarted hate that held men mute.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
But I'd been waiting for a chance to talk to my mother for too long, always finding myself thwarted in one way or another, by my fears or her own.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
He was sitting on a thwart, there, hands between his knees.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Even the claim of mental retardation was thwarted because no court would grant a hearing at such a late stage.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald Reagan -- Tear Down This Wall Speech
If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
I was thwarted .... thwarted, once again, by Harry Potter.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
He's done this out of thwarted love.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
She remembered how it pleased her to thwart them—to make them realize that her measure was different from theirs.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
—Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep: A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents:—come, come away!
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
Again, my hope for a storybook dalliance was thwarted by the fact that the stream was only about six inches deep.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
He felt his strength ebb as Gannel's spell thwarted whoever was trying to scry him and Saphira.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
I shan't let your reluctance thwart the idea any more than you let stealing stop you.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
He's not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

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