1. Preventing realization or attainment of a desire
   "The thwarting bureaucracy delayed the project for months";
   - frustrating, frustrative

1. An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
   "His thwarting of the project led to its eventual cancellation";
   - frustration, foiling

1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "We thwarted their plans";
   - queer [informal], spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]

Derived forms: thwartings

See also: preventative, preventive

Type of: forbid, foreclose, forestall, hinderance [rare], hindrance, interference, preclude, prevent

Encyclopedia: Thwart