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Contrarry :: Contrarry (a.) To contradict or oppose; to thwart.

Spite :: Spite (v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

Prevention :: Prevention (n.) The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting..

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

Athwart :: Athwart (adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

Transverse :: Transverse (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.

Overthwartly :: Overthwartly (adv.) In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control..

Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart..

Countervail :: Countervail (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate..

Overthwart :: Overthwart (v. t.) To cross; to oppose.

Athwart :: Athwart (prep.) Across; from side to side of.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

Thwart :: Thwart (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat..

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Thwarting :: Thwarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thwar.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash..

Intervent :: Intervent (v. t.) To thwart; to obstruct.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air..

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