thwart
verb
[ θwɔːt ]
• prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• "he never did anything to thwart his father"
thwart
noun
• a structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat.
thwart
preposition
• from one side to another side of (an area); across.
• "a pink-tinged cloud spread thwart the shore"
thwart
adverb
• from one side to another side of an area.
Origin:
Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert ‘perverse, obstinate, adverse’, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr ‘transverse’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
