Definitionadj. preventing realization or attainment of a desire
Last update: September 8, 2015
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This phobia about snakes was thwarting her attempts at independence. [Please select]
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If he knew that _I_ am now thwarting them also, he would hunt me to death. [Please select]
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He looked on with a faint, bitter smile, understanding her mood just as he understood her dark threat of thwarting him. [Please select]
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He himself bore the defeat of 1912 with the same valiant cheerfulness with which he took every disappointment and thwarting. [Please select]
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I've seen through your little game, Jake, and am glad I've been spared the necessity of thwarting you. [Please select]
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I took the liberty of doubting whether perfect loyalty to Monsieur included thwarting and disobeying his heir. [Please select]
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He divined her wish to return to earth, and he had no reason for thwarting it. [Please select]
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The consequences of thwarting his imperious will were too formidable to be encountered. [Please select]
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] The court settled nothing, and the king's wrath now turned towards Wolsey, whom he suspected of secretly thwarting his measures. [Please select]
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I think sometimes he takes a vicious pleasure in thwarting me. [Please select]
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May this broad comprehension of human thought lead Europe to estimate with greater justice a civilization numbering its years by thousands, and to refrain from thwarting the fulfillment of its destiny. [Please select]
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