How to pronounce “thwart”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
• (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
• (figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
• [Adverb]
• (obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
• [Preposition]
• (archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
• (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
• (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
• (ambitransitive, obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
• [Noun]
• (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
• (rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.

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