Usually means: Prevents someone from achieving something.
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  1. thwarts: Merriam-Webster
  2. thwarts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thwarts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Thwarts, thwarts: Wordnik
  5. thwarts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. thwarts: Wiktionary
  7. thwarts: Dictionary.com
  8. thwarts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. thwarts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thwarts: Legal dictionary

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  1. thwarts: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thwart)

adjective:  Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
adjective:  (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
adjective:  (figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
adverb:  (obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
verb:  (ambitransitive, obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
noun:  (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
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