Usually means: Actively preventing someone from succeeding.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. thwarting: Merriam-Webster
  2. thwarting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thwarting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Thwarting, thwarting: Wordnik
  5. thwarting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. thwarting: Wiktionary
  7. thwarting: Dictionary.com
  8. thwarting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Thwarting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. thwarting: Rhymezone
  11. Thwarting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. thwarting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. thwarting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. thwarting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. thwarting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thwarting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thwarting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See thwart as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thwarting)

noun:  An instance of blocking or obstructing.

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