Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thwarting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Thwarting}.]
1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow
thwarts the air. [Obs.]
Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the
night. --Milton.
2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to
contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the
inclinations of the other. --South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
thwarting
adj : preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: {frustrating},
{frustrative}]
n : an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: {frustration},
{foiling}]
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