How to pronounce “athwart”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
• Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
• (figuratively) Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
• [Preposition]
• From one side to the other side of; across.
• Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.
• Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
• (figuratively)
• (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck.

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