thwart
to prevent something from happening
TRANSLATION
thwart = etwas entgegenwirken, etwas vereiteln --- GOOGLE INDEX thwart: approximately 7,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Tom Hicks and George Gillett's legal bid to THWART the takeover of Liverpool is likely to end in failure according to a leading insolvency expert.
(BBC News)
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Top 3 Ways Businesses Can THWART Cyber Theft
(BusinessNewsDaily)
(BBC News)
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Top 3 Ways Businesses Can THWART Cyber Theft
(BusinessNewsDaily)
Did you
know?
thwart
verb
- to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Thwarting the world record
On June 9th, 1978, Bob Specas attempted to topple 100,000 dominoes at New York's Manhattan Center. Unfortunately, his effort to break the world record was thwarted during the preparations when a television cameraman dropped his press badge - and set off 97,500 dominoes. The record for toppling dominoes has meanwhile reached well over 4 million!
Etymology: From the Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert "perverse, obstinate, adverse", from Old Norse thvert, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin torquere "to twist".
By the way, thwart is the only word in the English language that begins with "thw".
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SYNONYMS
circumvent, curb, defeat, foil, impede, obstruct, prevent, ruin
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The police have become a lot more experienced at thwarting terrorist attacks."
verb
- to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Thwarting the world record
On June 9th, 1978, Bob Specas attempted to topple 100,000 dominoes at New York's Manhattan Center. Unfortunately, his effort to break the world record was thwarted during the preparations when a television cameraman dropped his press badge - and set off 97,500 dominoes. The record for toppling dominoes has meanwhile reached well over 4 million!
Etymology: From the Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert "perverse, obstinate, adverse", from Old Norse thvert, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin torquere "to twist".
By the way, thwart is the only word in the English language that begins with "thw".
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SYNONYMS
circumvent, curb, defeat, foil, impede, obstruct, prevent, ruin
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The police have become a lot more experienced at thwarting terrorist attacks."
