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thwart as in: thwarted her plans
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It seemed the world was out to thwart my plan to move to Colorado.thwart = prevent someone from doing what they want to
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The environmental activists thwarted the construction of the new oil pipeline by protesting and filing lawsuits.thwarted = prevented
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Because I wanted to climb the mountain so badly, because I had thought about the Thumb so intensely for so long, it seemed beyond the realm of possibility that some minor obstacle like the weather or crevasses or rime-covered rock might ultimately thwart my will. (source)thwart = prevent
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The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn't he? (source)
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To wonder if, thwarted, the god that had done it might try again. (source)thwarted = prevented
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Her efforts were thwarted when the doorbell rang. (source)thwarted = stopped
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Aunt Laura had been in love with him, but we'd thwarted her — disposed of this unknown lover somehow. (source)thwarted = stopped or prevented
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Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes. (source)thwart = prevent
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An uprising requires breaking the law, thwarting authority.† (source)
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What can it be that thwarts us?† (source)
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AT the court of King Arthur there came a young man and bigly made, and he was richly beseen: and he desired to be made knight of the king, but his over-garment sat over-thwartly, howbeit it was rich cloth of gold.† (source)
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He was at a starting-point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.† (source)
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He's not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object. (source)thwarted = prevented from getting what's wanted
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Having warbled his thanks and put the potions in his boots, Hugo departed, and Hagar informed the audience that as he had killed a few of her friends in times past, she had cursed him, and intends to thwart his plans, and be revenged on him. (source)thwart = prevent
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Mr. Brinker-Smith found the twins' methods of thwarting his various inventions "fascinating"; he was a true scientist—the failures of his experiments were almost as interesting to him as his successes, and his determination to press forward, with more and more twin-inspired inventions, was resolute.† (source)
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Any nation that thwarts such endeavors will undoubtedly find itself the object of moral ostracism.† (source)
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He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart. (source)thwart = seat of a row boat
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Can you remember I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing. (source)
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Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull. (source)
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