英语词汇“thwart”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINthwart

Origin:

1300-1400 thwart ‘across’ (13-19 centuries), from Old Norse thvert

VERB TABLE

thwart

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	thwart
	he, she, it	thwarts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	thwarted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have thwarted
	he, she, it	has thwarted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had thwarted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will thwart
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have thwarted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am thwarting
	he, she, it	is thwarting
	you, we, they	are thwarting
Past	I, he, she, it	was thwarting
	you, we, they	were thwarting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been thwarting
	he, she, it	has been thwarting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been thwarting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be thwarting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been thwarting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been thwarted by customs officials.
Efforts to clean up the oil spill have been thwarted by storms.
Harry knew now that nothing could thwart his plans.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Apart from anything else, by both thwarting and manipulating nationalism, it prevented it from learning its limits.
Congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to thwart these efforts.
During Yeltsin's campaign for the presidency Gorbachev had at times quite blatantly attempted to thwart him.
However, the council of ministers, divided on every other issue, combined to thwart her.
It would have to reach 448. 95 or less to thwart the Lockheed Martin-Loral combination.
Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy.
People whose appetite for encryption may be thwarted righteously, effectively, and harshly.
This revolution, how-ever, was thwarted almost at once.

Longman Language Activatorto prevent a plan or action from succeeding► block

to use something such as a law or an official order to prevent someone from doing something that they have been planning to do: · Britain has threatened to block new EU legislation on human rights.· The deal was blocked by the chairman, who was unwilling to commit so much company money to a risky investment.

► obstruct

to try to prevent someone from doing something by deliberately making it much more difficult for them: · The House of Lords has been accused of obstructing change and preventing scientific progress.· It is an offence to obstruct the police during the course of their duty.

► thwart

formal to prevent someone from doing something, especially something that they very much want to do because it is personally important to them: · Harry knew now that nothing could thwart his plans.· An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been thwarted by customs officials.

► foil

to prevent something bad or criminal that someone is planning to do, by being more clever than they are: · The government has foiled an attempted military coup.· The burglar was foiled by a passer-by who noticed the broken window and phoned the police.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► frustrate/thwart somebody’s ambitions

formal (=prevent someone from achieving them)· The weather threatened to frustrate their ambitions.· Her lifelong ambitions had been thwarted again and again.

► foil/thwart an attempt

formal (=make it fail)· Troops loyal to the general foiled the assassination attempt.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► attempt

· Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.· A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.

► effort

· It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.· Congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to thwart these efforts.· But remoteness from the nearest exchange thwarted its efforts.· Barred: Burglars who broke into the Spennymoor Leisure Centre were thwarted in their efforts to break into the bar.

► plan

· Providing the military or the wild west sea don't thwart your plans, I doubt very much these climbs will disappoint.· Mauss bought the passkey back, thwarting the anarchists' plans.· The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.

VERB► try

· Just as urgently, the Putin government is trying to thwart him.