Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
thwart .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disappointingly unsuccessful
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Examples
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The following year, Garcia took a one-stroke lead to the 70th hole of the PGA Championship but Harrington again thwarted Garcia's bid to break into the fraternity of major champions.
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To be curbed, stood up to, in a word thwarted, exercises the character, elasticates the spirit, makes it pliant.
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The pull of a mystery that needs to be solved, or of an unseen and looming threat that needs to be thwarted is alluring for many readers, and for me, combining that with either an epic, urban or alternative fantasy setting is better than ice cream and cake.
MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008
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Since then, the commission has been seeking powers to enforce the removal of the ban, for which it needed Council approval but, by a qualified majority, the Council has once again thwarted any attempts to bring the errant member state into line.
A single European lame duck? Richard 2006
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At the time, officials said thousands of marchers could have been injured in what was later described as a thwarted example of "domestic terrorism."
Suspect Is Arrested in Spokane Bomb Case Joel Millman 2011
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A mind or spirit finds its fullest expression thwarted by the misuse or the gross abuse of the body in which it dwells.
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The feds are failing to communicate properly, and now we've had a second close call thwarted not by federal authorities -- apparently too busy chasing backwoods, "anti-gov't" crackers to focus on the real threats -- but by average, every-day Americans.
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In Bolivia, three foreign nationals were killed and two arrested in what the Bolivian government called a thwarted assassination plot on President Evo Morales.
Democracy Now! 2009
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In Bolivia, three foreign nationals were killed and two arrested in what the Bolivian government called a thwarted assassination plot on President Evo Morales.
Democracy Now! 2009
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In Bolivia, three foreign nationals were killed and two arrested in what the Bolivian government called a thwarted assassination plot on President Evo Morales.
Democracy Now! 2009
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