English-Dutch translations for thwart

• afweren
• dwarsbomen
  De Soedanese regering moet gestraft worden als zij de inspanningen van de internationale gemeenschap in Darfoer blijft dwarsbomen. The Sudanese Government must be punished if they persist in thwarting the efforts of the international community in Darfur.
  Alleen wie geen vertrouwen heeft in zijn eigen argumenten of met allerlei slimmigheidjes de publieke opinie probeert te dwarsbomen, loopt weg voor een uitspraak van het volk. Only those lacking in confidence in their own case or with a knavish design to thwart public opinion run away from letting the people decide.
  Het lijkt duidelijk dat de timing van de aanslag bewust zo was gekozen om de zoektocht naar een diplomatieke oplossing te dwarsbomen, die zo vreselijk nodig is in die regio. It seems obvious that the attack was deliberately timed to thwart the quest for a diplomatic solution, which is so desperately needed in that region.
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Definition of thwart

• place#Verb|Placed or situated across something else; cross#Adjective|cross, oblique, transverse
• Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn
• Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky
• Across the direction of travel#Noun|travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely
• Across, athwart
• To cause#Verb|cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent
• To place#Verb|place across ; to position#Verb|position crosswise
• To move#Verb|move across or counter#Adjective|counter to; to cross#Verb|cross
• A seat#Noun|seat across a boat#Noun|boat on which a rower may sit
• A brace#Noun|brace, perpendicular#Adjective|perpendicular to the keel#Noun|keel, that helps maintain the of a marine vessel against external water#Noun|water pressure#Noun|pressure and that may serve to support#Verb|support the rail#Noun|rail
• An act#Noun|act of #Verb|thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle

Examples

• Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm
• The police thwarted the would-be assassin
• An arrow thwarts the air
• The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row
• A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart

Related words

• thwarted
• athwart
• athwartships
• athwartship
• overthwart