thwarting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thwarting	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for thwarting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thwarting adj preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting] n an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: frustration, thwarting, foiling]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thwarting}.] 1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. --Milton. 2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. --South.