thwart
阻挠,阻挠了,阻碍,阻止
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Definitions
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- : to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
- : to frustrate or baffle.
- : Archaic. to cross.to extend across.
- 1
- : a seat across a boat, especially one used by a rower.
- : a transverse member spreading the gunwales of a canoe or the like.
- 1
- : passing or lying crosswise or across; cross; transverse.
- : perverse; obstinate.
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Examples
For now, an attempt to break into your mind could easily be thwarted by closing your eyes, or wiggling fingers, or even getting drowsy.
It’s a role he grew into, first thanks to insight he gained keeping his own hives, and more recently by embracing the latest in security technology to thwart thieves.
Amazon effort to thwart Alabama union drive suffers early defeat at labor boardBy rule, Amazon’s frenzy of anti-union campaigning in Bessemer will slow soon enough.
When the spike protein changes, however, it can become harder for our immune system to recognize and, ultimately, thwart.
Meanwhile, Stanton camped out in his War Department office and thwarted attempts to replace him.
An independent Paris publishing house, Les Arènes, is said to have had a skeleton staff working on the project to thwart leaks.
“They made every effort they could to thwart the study at every turn,” she says.
Sadly for the NRA, we are in the Information Age, and the truth is starting to regularly get past their efforts to thwart it.
All Facebook will see is cyphertext—the mathematical gibberish computers generate to thwart spying eyes.
For years, Google has been developing ways to help people living under oppressive regimes thwart online suppression.
Who was he, indeed, that he should claim the right to thwart another's happiness, hinder another's best self-realisation?