THWART, adjective thwort. [Latin verto, versus.] Transverse; being across something else. Mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities. THWART, verb transitive thwort. To cross; to be, lie or come across the direction of something. Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. 1. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. We say, to thwart a purpose, design or inclination; or to thwart a person. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. THWART, verb intransitive To be in opposition. --A proposition that shall thwart at all with these internal oracles. [Unusual and improper.] THWART, noun The seat or bench of a boat on which the rowers sit.
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