MEANING
To prevent a person, plan, or effort from succeeding, often through deliberate opposition or obstruction.
Use it for
A character’s plan or attempt is actively blocked before it can succeed.Replaces vague “stop” when an opposing force blocks an intended action or scheme.
On the page
A locked gate thwarted their attempt to reach the tower.
Word forms
- Base
- thwart
- Past tense
- thwarted
- Past participle
- thwarted
- Present participle
- thwarting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- thwart
- Present continuous
- am/is/are thwarting
- Present perfect
- have/has thwarted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been thwarting
- Past
- thwarted
- Past continuous
- was/were thwarting
- Past perfect
- had thwarted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been thwarting
- Future
- will thwart
- Future continuous
- will be thwarting
- Future perfect
- will have thwarted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been thwarting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Explore related collections
Your margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.