Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to thwart
Participle: thwarted
Gerund: thwarting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | thwart |
| you | thwart |
| he;she;it | thwarts |
| we | thwart |
| you | thwart |
| they | thwart |
Perfect
| I | have thwarted |
| you | have thwarted |
| he;she;it | has thwarted |
| we | have thwarted |
| you | have thwarted |
| they | have thwarted |
Past
| I | thwarted |
| you | thwarted |
| he;she;it | thwarted |
| we | thwarted |
| you | thwarted |
| they | thwarted |
Pluperfect
| I | had thwarted |
| you | had thwarted |
| he;she;it | had thwarted |
| we | had thwarted |
| you | had thwarted |
| they | had thwarted |
Future
| I | will thwart |
| you | will thwart |
| he;she;it | will thwart |
| we | will thwart |
| you | will thwart |
| they | will thwart |
Future Perfect
| I | will have thwarted |
| you | will have thwarted |
| he;she;it | will have thwarted |
| we | will have thwarted |
| you | will have thwarted |
| they | will have thwarted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | thwart |
| you | thwart |
| he;she;it | thwart |
| we | thwart |
| you | thwart |
| they | thwart |
Perfect
| I | have thwarted |
| you | have thwarted |
| he;she;it | have thwarted |
| we | have thwarted |
| you | have thwarted |
| they | have thwarted |
Imperfect
| I | thwarted |
| you | thwarted |
| he;she;it | thwarted |
| we | thwarted |
| you | thwarted |
| they | thwarted |
Pluperfect
| I | had thwarted |
| you | had thwarted |
| he;she;it | had thwarted |
| we | had thwarted |
| you | had thwarted |
| they | had thwarted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would thwart |
| you | would thwart |
| he;she;it | would thwart |
| we | would thwart |
| you | would thwart |
| they | would thwart |
Perfect
| I | would have thwarted |
| you | would have thwarted |
| he;she;it | would have thwarted |
| we | would have thwarted |
| you | would have thwarted |
| they | would have thwarted |
Imperative
| you | thwart |
| we | Let's thwart |
| you | thwart |
Verbs conjugated like 'thwart'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'thwart'
chart,
heart,
shart,
swart,
tart,
thar,
thwack,
thwap,
thwarten,
twat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle
- behedge, forestay, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, impede, incommode, obstruct, overslaugh, prevene, prevent, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, thwarten, umbeset, undermine
- frustrate
- foil, baffle, hinder, obstruct, oppose, impede, defeat, prevent
Antonyms
- frustrate
- facilitate, encourage, stimulate, countenance
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1200, from O.N. þvert "across," originally neut. of thverr (adj.) "transverse, across," cognate with O.E. þweorh "transverse, perverse, angry, cross," from P.Gmc. *thwerkhaz (cf. M.Du. dwers, Du. dwars "cross-grained, contrary," O.H.G. twerh, Ger. quer, Goth. þwairhs "angry"), altered (by influence of *thwer- "to turn") from *therkh-, from PIE *twork-/*twerk- "twist" (cf. L. torquere "to twist," Skt. tarkuh "spindle," O.C.S. traku "band, girdle," O.H.G. drahsil "turner," Ger. drechseln "to turn on a lathe"). The verb meaning "oppose, hinder" is c.1250, from the adv. and prep.
2. From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”).
3. Cognates
4. The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh,
Sample Sentences
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Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.
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The police thwarted the would-be assassin.
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If thou grieueſt that beeing the daughter of a Prince, and enuie thwarteth thée with ſuch hard exigents, thinke that royaltie is a faire marke; that Crownes haue croſſes when mirth is in Cottages; that the fairer the Roſe is, the ſooner it is bitten with Catterpillers; […] [1590, T[homas] L[odge], “Alindas Comfort to Perplexed Rosalynd”, in Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G[ubbin] and John Busbie, →OCLC; republished [Glasgow]: [ […] Hunterian Club], [1876], →OCLC, folio 13, verso, page 34:]
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The Underſtanding and Will never diſagreed; for the Propoſals of the one never thwarted the Inclinations of the other. [1662 November 9, Robert South, “[Sermon II] A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul’s, November the 9th, 1662: Genesis i. 27. So God created Man in his own Image, in the Image of God created He him.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 5th edition, volume I, London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 60:]
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Hear ye the serf I bred, begin to reckon / Upon his rights and pleasure! Who am I— / Thou abject, who am I, whose will thou thwartest? [1830, Walter Scott, “Auchindrane; or, The Ayrshire Tragedy”, in The Doom of Devorgoil, a Melo-drama; Auchindrane; or, The Ayrshire Tragedy, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Company; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 309:]
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Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:]
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The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA. [2004, Peter Bondanella, “Wise Guys: Hollywood Italian Gangsters”, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 231–232:]
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More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. [2006, Edwin Black, “Power Struggle”, in Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, →OL:]
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Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart [Theo] Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen. [2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2011:]
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An arrow thwarts the air.
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Thither came Uriel, gliding through the Eeven / On a Sun beam, ſwift as a ſhooting Starr / In Autumn thwarts the night, […] [1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 555–557:]