Exact Match:
- thwart
- a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
Synonyms:
- across,
- across the grain,
- annul,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat,
- bench,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bilk,
- blast,
- block,
- brace,
- brave,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- cast down,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- come to nothing,
- confound,
- confront,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- curb,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- diagonal,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foul up,
- frustrate,
- gum up,
- hinder,
- impede,
- invalidate,
- kittycorner,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nonplus,
- nullify,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- obstruct,
- offset,
- oppose,
- overthwart,
- perplex,
- queer,
- restrain,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- short-circuit,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stultify,
- stump,
- style,
- stymie,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- undo,
- upset,
- vitiate,
- void