Italian-English translations for sventare

foil
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to foil the scent in hunting
thwartThink of the innocent people who would have been killed by the kamikaze attacks that these controls have thwarted. Pensate agli innocenti che sarebbero stati uccisi dagli attentati che questi controlli avranno permesso di sventare. It is an insult to our freedom and intelligence, as well as vile blackmail, to claim that torture has helped to thwart even a single terrorist attack in Europe or elsewhere in the world. E’ un insulto alla nostra libertà e intelligenza, rafforzato da un vile ricatto, affermare che la tortura abbia permesso di sventare anche un solo attentato in Europa o in altre parti del mondo. Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm