Crossword-Solution: THWART
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thwart | a. | Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. |
| Thwart | a. | Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. |
| Thwart | a. | Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. |
| Thwart | prep. | Across; athwart. |
| Thwart | n. | A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat. |
| Thwart | v. t. | To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. |
| Thwart | v. t. | To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. |
| Thwart | v. i. | To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. |
| Thwart | v. i. | Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “THWART”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wreck the plans of | 1 answer |
| Upset, as plans | 1 answer |
| Stymie, as plans | 1 answer |
| Short-circuit | 1 answer |
| Rowboat seat | 1 answer |
| Prevent, as a robbery | 1 answer |
| Oppose successfully | 1 answer |
| Foil, say | 1 answer |
| Foil the plans of | 1 answer |
| Prevent from succeeding | 2 answers |
| ROWER, bench of | 3 answers |
| Short circuit? | 3 answers |
| Prevent the success of | 3 answers |
| Prevent from happening | 4 answers |
| Keep from happening | 7 answers |
| get in the way of | 10 answers |
| BOLDLY OPPOSE | 10 answers |
| DIET SUCCESSFULLY | 12 answers |
| Head off | 16 answers |
| Stymie | 18 answers |
| Turn Back | 19 answers |
| Discomfit | 21 answers |
| Put the kibosh on | 21 answers |
| BOAT, part of | 31 answers |
| turn down | 36 answers |
| Discon-cert | 39 answers |
| BENCH ___ | 40 answers |
| shroud | 47 answers |
| deter | 49 answers |
| Prevent | 53 answers |
| Foil | 57 answers |
| Baffle | 59 answers |
| Oppose | 64 answers |
| Frustrate | 65 answers |
| Impede | 67 answers |
| Obstruct | 71 answers |
| Block | 84 answers |
| Defeat | 85 answers |
| Cross | 120 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with THWART (5)
There were plenty of blacks on Omean to thwart us were we apprehended; however many more might come from the temples and gardens of Issus would not in any way decrease our chances.
You know that you hate Salensus Oll and that nothing would please you more than to thwart him in some cherished plan.
Disheartened and discouraged by the strange sequence of events that seemed fore-ordained to thwart his every attempt to serve the Princess of Ptarth, he paid little or no attention to his surroundings, moving through the deserted city as though no great white apes lurked in the black shadows of the mystery-haunted piles that flanked the broad avenues and the great plaza.
Through the man’s brain passed plan after plan whereby he might thwart the escape of the Englishman and his wife, for so long as the vital spark remained within the vindictive brain of Alexander Paulvitch none who had aroused the enmity of the Russian might be entirely safe.
The latter, fearing treachery, sprang to his feet with raised rifle, but when one of the paddlers explained that it was the Rajah Muda Saffir who hailed them and that he was alone von Horn permitted them to draw nearer the shore, though he continued to stand ready to thwart any attempted treachery and warned both the professor and Sing to be on guard.
Quotes with THWART (3)
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
We are in God’s hands. We can’t come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him.
To Have Without Holding: Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the roomsrustling the sheets and snapping the blindsthat thwack like rubber bandsin an open palm. It hurts to love wide openstretching the muscles that feelas if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, thenof sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexesof grab, of clutch,…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 60 times in crossword archives (1969–2025).