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How to pronounce “thwart”
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Pronunciation guide for thwart
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of thwart with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The new political story that could change everything
we can thwart the urge for people to burrow into the security
- Definition summary
- Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce thwart
The new political story that could change everything
we can thwart the urge for people to burrow into the security
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “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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